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**Chris Bond** @Vibracobra23@mastodon.social · Jun 9

Chris Bond @Vibracobra23@mastodon.social

#954 H.G. Dines - The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England: Volume 1. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1988, 3rd impression with amendments.

The front cover of The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England: Volume 1 by H.G. Dines for the British Geological Survey. Plain green with title in black.

#HGDines #BritishGeologicalSurvey #HMSO

**Chris Bond** @Vibracobra23@mastodon.social · Apr 30

Apr 30

Chris Bond @Vibracobra23@mastodon.social

#914 C.A. Ralegh-Radford - Tintagel Castle. Her Majesty's Stationery Office for the Department of the Environment, Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings, 1st edition, 15th impression, 1971. #Tintagel #Cornwall #Kernow #CARaleghRadford #HMSO #BookOfTheDay

The front cover of the DoE guide to Tintagel Castle by C.A. Ralegh-Radford. Plain blue with title in white and the arms of Richard, Earl of Cornwall and King of the Romans to the top left.

**Chris Bond** @Vibracobra23@mastodon.social · Feb 12

Feb 12

Chris Bond @Vibracobra23@mastodon.social

#837 H.N. Savory et al - An Illustrated Guide to the Ancient Monuments of Wales. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, for the Department of the Environment, 1973, 1st edition. #HNSavory #HMSO #Cymru #Wales #Archaeology #BookOfTheDay

The front cover of An Illustrated Guide to the Ancient Monuments of Wales by H.N. Savory and others. Orange-red with title in white and an illustration of Caernarvon Castle. Includes a gazetteer at the back as well as a large folded map.

**Chris Bond** @Vibracobra23@mastodon.social · Jan 19

Jan 19

Chris Bond @Vibracobra23@mastodon.social

#813 Anna Ritchie and Graham Ritchie - The Ancient Monuments of Orkney. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Historic Scotland, 1990, 3rd edition, 2nd impression. #AnnaRitchie #GrahamRitchie #HMSO #HistoricScotland #Orkney #Archaeology #StandingStoneSunday #BookOfTheDay

The front cover of The Ancient Monuments of Orkney by Anna and Graham Ritchie, with title in brown against a detail from John Frederick Miller's 1775 painting "The view of the Circle of Loda at a Distance", which shows part of the Ring of Brodgar Stone Circle.

**Chris Bond** @Vibracobra23@mastodon.social · Jan 2

Jan 2

Chris Bond @Vibracobra23@mastodon.social

#796 Chysauster Prehistoric Village, Cornwall. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Department of the Environment, 1975. #HMSO #Chysauster #Cornwall #IronAge #Settlements #Prehistory #BookOfTheDay

The front cover of the booklet Chysauster Prehistoric Village, produced by HMSO for the DoE in 1975. Price 4p. Olive green with title in white and black and an illustration of Chysauster to the top helf.

**Chris Bond** @Vibracobra23@mastodon.social · Oct 18, 2024

Oct 18, 2024

Chris Bond @Vibracobra23@mastodon.social

#720 Graham Ritchie and Mary Harman - Exploring Scotland's Heritage: Argyll and the Western Isles. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, 1990, 1st edition, amended reprint. #GrahamRitchie #MaryHarman #HMSO #RCAHMS #Scotland #Argyll #Hebrides #Archaeology #History #BookOfTheDay

The front cover of Exploring Scotland's Heritage: Argyll and the Western Isles by Graham Ritchie and Mary Harman, with Horatio McCulloch's 1857 painting of Inverlochy Castle to the front.

**Chris Bond** @Vibracobra23@mastodon.social · Sep 22, 2024

Sep 22, 2024

Chris Bond @Vibracobra23@mastodon.social

#694 R.J.C. Atkinson - Stonehenge and Avebury and Neighbouring Monuments. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1965, 5th impression. #RJCAtkinson #HMSO #Stonehenge #StoneCircles #Archaeology #StandingStoneSunday #BookOfTheDay

The front cover of Stonehenge and Avebury and Neighbouring Monuments by R.J.C. Atkinson, featuring a colour illustration by Alan Sorrell of part of the outer ring of Stonehenge.

**Chris Bond** @Vibracobra23@mastodon.social · Sep 8, 2024

Sep 8, 2024

Chris Bond @Vibracobra23@mastodon.social

#680 L.V. Grinsell - Stanton Drew Stone Circles, Somerset. Department of the Environment, Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings, 1977, 1st edition, reprint. #LVGrinsell #LeslieVGrinsell #HMSO #StantonDrew #StoneCircles #Archaeology #StandingStoneSunday #BookOfTheDay

Department of the Environment : Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings -
Stanton Drew Stone Circles -
SOMERSET -
L. V. GRINSELL FSA -
HISTORY -
About six miles south of Bristol, and immediately east of the village of Stanton Drew, is a group of stone circles which is almost as important in Wessex as Stonehenge and Avebury. There are three stone circles (two of which have stone avenues extending eastwards from them), a ‘“cove,” and a single recumbent stone known as Hautville’s Quoit. A line drawn south-westwards through the centres of the North-eastern Circle and Great Circle will pass through the “Cove,” and these three monuments were therefore probably all constructed at the same period. A line drawn through the centres of the South-western and Great Circles will, if projected north-east- wards, continue to Hautville’s Quoit; from which it appears that those three elements also are contemporary. Therefore all the elements in the Stanton Drew group are probably of the same period—somewhere between 2000 and 1400 BC.
The stones are mostly of the local conglomerate. One or two are stated to be of oolite probably from Dundry about 3 miles (4.8km) to the north, while Hautville’s Quoit and possibly others may be of sarsen. All this group of stone circles is in the guardianship of the Department of the Environment except Hautville’s Quoit and the stones at Middle Ham Farm.
The Great Circle and Avenue. The Great Circle is 365-70ft (111-12m) in diameter north to south, and very...

**Chris Bond** @Vibracobra23@mastodon.social · Aug 18, 2024

Aug 18, 2024

Chris Bond @Vibracobra23@mastodon.social

#659 Ann Hamlin - Historic Monuments of Northern Ireland: An Introduction and Guide. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Belfast, Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland, 1987, 6th edition, 2nd (revised) impression. #AnnHamlin #HMSO #Ireland #NorthernIreland #Archaeology #BookOfTheDay

The front cover of Historic Monuments of Northern Ireland: An Introduction and Guide by Ann Hamlin. Plain eggshell blue with title in black and a colour photo of Drumrena Cashel near Newry to the lower centre.

**Chris Bond** @Vibracobra23@mastodon.social · Aug 16, 2024

Aug 16, 2024

Chris Bond @Vibracobra23@mastodon.social

#657 P.K. Baillie Reynolds - Chysauster, Cornwall. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Department of the Environment, 1975, reprint of 1960 edition. #PKBaillieReynolds #HMSO #Chysauster #Cornwall #Archaeology #BookOfTheDay

The front cover of Chysauster, Cornwall by P.K. Baillie Reynolds. Plain white with title and the first few paragraphs of text.

**Chris Bond** @Vibracobra23@mastodon.social · May 27, 2024

May 27, 2024

Chris Bond @Vibracobra23@mastodon.social

#583 Saint Mawes Castle, Cornwall. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Ministry of Public Building and Works, 1967, reprint of 1st edition. #StMawes #Cornwall #Castles #HMSO #BookOfTheDay

The front cover of the pamphlet Saint Mawes Castle, Cornwall. Part of which reads:

"HISTORY -

IN 1538 a reconciliation between the Emperor Charles V and Francis I, King of France, whose continued rivalry it had been the business of English diplomacy to foster, meant that there was real danger of an invasion of England. Henry VIII, King of England, thereupon set about strengthening the fortifications of the coasts facing the Continent. To this work he diverted some of the money and much of the material derived from the suppression of the monasteries. Large numbers of men were employed, and in a space of eight years many new castles and blockhouses were erected along the coast from Hull to Milford Haven. The two castles at the mouth of the Fal estuary, on opposite sides of Carrick Roads— St. Mawes and Pendennis—were not amongst the first to be built, but they are two of the best remaining examples. St. Mawes Castle was begun in 1540 and finished in 1543.

The first Governor, appointed in the spring of 1544, was Michael Vyvyan, a member of the family who still hold the estate of Trelowarren at the head of Helford River. He was succeeded in 1561 by Hannibal Vyvyan; a bell, cast for the latter’s use at the castle, inscribed “Hanniball Vivian 1600” and stamped with a crowned fleur-de-lys, is at Trelowarren Park to-day. In July, 1595, this Governor reported to Sir Francis Drake in London the Spanish raid upon Penzance, when four galleys landed a force which burnt Penzance..."

**Chris Bond** @Vibracobra23@mastodon.social · May 19, 2024

May 19, 2024

Chris Bond @Vibracobra23@mastodon.social

#575 Frank Stevens and Heywood Sumner - Stonehenge Today & Yesterday. His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1929, 1st edition, revised, with fold-out plan. #FrankStevens #HeywoodSumner #HMSO #Stonehenge #Archaeology #Megaliths #StandingStoneSunday #BookOfTheDay

The front cover of the 1929 revised 1st edition of Stonehenge Today & Yesterday by Frank Stevens and Heywood Sumner, notable for Heywood Sumner's detailed plans. Plain discoloured sage green with title and a small illustration of a trilithon to the centre.

**Chris Bond** @Vibracobra23@mastodon.social · Apr 25, 2024

Apr 25, 2024

Chris Bond @Vibracobra23@mastodon.social

#551 I.F. Smith - Long Barrows in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1979, 1st edition. #IFSmith #HMSO #RCHME #LongBarrows #Archaeology #Hampshire #IsleOfWight #BookOfTheDay

The front cover of Long Barrows in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight by I.F. Smith, published by HMSO in 1979. Blue monochrome with title in white with a tree-covered long barrow to the centre.

**Chris Bond** @Vibracobra23@mastodon.social · Oct 11, 2023

Oct 11, 2023

Chris Bond @Vibracobra23@mastodon.social

#354 Archaeological Excavations 1971: A Brief Summary of Prehistoric, Roman and Medieval sites throughout the country excavated in advance of destruction. HMSO, Department of the Environment, London, 1972, 1st edition. #Archaeology #RescueArchaeology #Excavations #HMSO #BookOfTheDay

The front cover of Archaeological Excavations 1971. Red with title in white and a large monochrome photo of an ancient skeleton in a grave.

**Chris Bond** @Vibracobra23@mastodon.social · Aug 10, 2023

Aug 10, 2023

Chris Bond @Vibracobra23@mastodon.social

#292 John G. Dunbar and Ian Fisher - Iona. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, 1988, 1st edition, 2nd impression. #JohnGDunbar #IanFisher #Iona #HMSO #RCAHMS #History #Archaeology #Ecclesiology #BookOfTheDay

The front cover of Iona by John G. Dunbar and Ian Fisher, published by HMSO for the RCAHMS in 1988. The background is a full cover colour photo of the sun breaking through a cloudy sky and at the centre is the title in white on pale blue above a colour photo of the replica of St John's Cross, surrounded by white doves in flight, in front of the Benedictine Abbey originally founded by St Columba in 563AD.

**Chris Bond** @Vibracobra23@mastodon.social · May 20, 2023

May 20, 2023

Chris Bond @Vibracobra23@mastodon.social

#210 C.A. Ralegh-Radford - Tintagel Castle. Her Majesty's Stationery Office for the Ministry of Public Buildings and Works, 1st edition, eleventh impression, 1964. #Tintagel #Cornwall #Kernow #CARaleghRadford #HMSO #BookOfTheDay

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