Secret Britain
Unearthing our Mysterious Past
by Mary-Ann Ochota
This title was previously available on NetGalley and is now archived.
Send NetGalley books directly to your Kindle or Kindle app
1
To read on a Kindle or Kindle app, please add kindle@netgalley.com as an approved email address to receive files in your Amazon account. Click here for step-by-step instructions.
2
Also find your Kindle email address within your Amazon account, and enter it here.
Pub Date Mar 12 2024 | Archive Date Feb 01 2024
Quarto Publishing Group – White Lion | Frances Lincoln
Talking about this book? Use #SecretBritain #NetGalley. More hashtag tips!
Description
An Ice Age cannibal’s skull cup, a hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold, a seventeenth century witch bottle… anthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota unearths more than 70 of Britain's most intriguing ancient places and artefacts and explores the mysteries behind them.
Britain is full of ancient wonders: not grand like the Egyptian pyramids, but small, strange places and objects that hint at a deep and enduring relationship with the mystic. Secret Britain offers an expertly guided tour of Britain’s most fascinating mysteries: archaeological sites and artefacts that take us deep into the lives of the many different peoples who have inhabited the island over the millennia.
Illustrated with beautiful photographs, the wonders include buried treasure, stone circles and geoglyphs, outdoor places of worship, caves filled with medieval carvings, and enigmatic tools to divine the future. Explore famous sites such as Stonehenge and Glastonbury, but also discover:
- The Lindow Man bog body, showing neatly trimmed hair and manicured fingernails despite having been killed 2,000 years ago
- The Uffington White Horse, a horse-shaped geoglyph maintained by an unbroken chain of people for 3,000 years
- A roman baby’s bronze cockerel, an underworld companion for a two-year-old who died sometime between AD 100–200
- St Leonard’s Ossuary, home to 1,200 skulls and a vast stack of human bones made up of around 2,000 people who died from the 1200s to the 1500s
- The Wenhaston Doom painting, an extraordinary medieval depiction of the Last Judgement painted on a chancel arch
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780711288850 |
| PRICE | $25.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 240 |
Available on NetGalley
Average rating from 40 members
Readers who liked this book also liked:
L.M Montgomery
Children's Fiction, Comics, Graphic Novels, Manga, Teens & YA
Yuzuru Kuki
Biographies & Memoirs, Children's Nonfiction, Comics, Graphic Novels, Manga
JUNO
Arts & Photography, Comics, Graphic Novels, Manga, Travel
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Sci Fi & Fantasy
Judith Orloff; Jennifer Adams
Children's Fiction, Middle Grade, Parenting & Families
© 2025 NetGalley LLC
• All Rights Reserved
