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This book gives details of recent excavations at sites of international significance, such as Sutton Hoo, West Stow and Brandon. It covers the history and archaeology of Suffolk, from the time of the first farmers to the coming of the Normans.
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Bright Family
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First published in three volumes, 1988, 1990, and 1992.
Simon Jenkins has travelled the length and breadth of England to select his thousand best churches. Organised by county, each church is described - often with delightful asides - and given a star-rating from one to five. All of the county sections are prefaced by a map locating each church, and lavishly illustrated with colour photos from the Country Life archive. Jenkins contends that these churches house a gallery of vernacular art without equal in the world. Here, he brings that museum to public attention.
Excerpt from The Brights of Suffolk, England Few occupations are deemed by a majority of our countrymen less profitable than the pursuit of an ancestry so long passed away from the stage, and so much lost in the shadows of former ages, that a few mouldering relics are often the only vestiges left to mark the scene of their perhaps uneventful lives, of a majority of whom the most that can be told is, that they were born, and that they died. If the chase in search of kindred leads to distant lands, among the memorials of extinct families, whose very names may be unknown to their succes sors in the ancient homes where they flourished, it is usually set down as an idle employment. About the Pub...