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About this book
In 1953 the schoolboy Alan Garner rediscovered a wooden shovel originally found in the Alderley copper mines in 1875. In 1991 he presented it to the Manchester Museum in the University of Manchester: this – and the discovery of a hoard of over 500 Roman coins – inspired the creation of the Alderley Edge Landscape Project, a multi-disciplinary research programme of the Museum and the National Trust, who own of most of the Edge, that aimed to study the entire history of Alderley, from geology to entomology, mining to oral history. No other village has enjoyed such a comprehensive study of its story: the list of chapter-headings reads like a roll-call of everything you ever wanted to know about this or any place. The book concludes with Alan Garner's retelling of the famous legend of the sleeping king, setting a familiar tale told him by his grandfather in a whole other world of prehistoric ritual and sacrifice.
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Topic
ArtSubtopic
Museum StudiesTable of contents
- Cover
- The story of Alderley
- Contents
- List of plates
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Foreword: Lord Stanley of Alderley
- Preface: Tristram Besterman
- Preamble and acknowledgements: A. J. N. W. Prag
- Note on units
- List of abbreviations
- Part I. Introductory
- Part II. The bedrock of the Edge – geology and geography
- Part III. Natural history – the flora and fauna
- Part IV. Human history – archaeology and underground
- Part V. Human history – overground: the social history
- Part VI. Looking back, looking forward
- Appendices
- General glossary: A. J. N.W. Prag (ed.)
- Geology glossary: Simon Timberlake, with Nigel Dibben, David I. Green and Geoffrey Warrington
- Glossary of mining and quarrying terms: Simon Timberlake with Nigel Dibben, David I. Green and Geoffrey Warrington
- References
- Index: Compiled by Simon Timberlake
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