Mark Bowden
Biographic Data
| ID | 299361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Bowden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Bowden |
| SIGNATURE | BOWDEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | English Heritage |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3812-3340 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The landscapes of common land: History and ecology in Norfolk and beyond
This book is accurately described by its title. The first chapter provides an introduction both to the book itself and to the complex issue of what constitutes common land, with a description of th...
Truth and Lies: What People Are Really Thinking
Pattern and Progress: Field Systems of the Second and Early First Millennia BC in Southern Britain, by Judie English
Analytical Surveys of Stonehenge and its Environs, 2009–2013: Part 2 – the Stones
Non-invasive survey in the Stonehenge ‘Triangle’, Amesbury, Wiltshire, has highlighted a number of features that have a significant bearing on the interpretation of the site. Geophysical anomalies may signal the position of buried stones adding to the possibility of former stone arrangements, while laser scanning has provided detail on the manner in which the stones have been dressed; some subsequently carved with axe and dagger symbols. The prob…
An Archaeology of Town Commons in England: 'A very fair field indeed'
Analytical Surveys of Stonehenge and its Immediate Environs, 2009–2013: Part 1 – the Landscape and Earthworks
Integrated non-invasive survey in the Stonehenge ‘triangle’, Amesbury, Wiltshire, has highlighted a number of features that have a significant bearing on the interpretation of the site. Among them are periglacial and natural topographical structures, including a chalk mound that may have influenced site development. Some geophysical anomalies are similar to the post-holes in the car park of known Mesolithic date, while others beneath the barrows …
Parchmarks at Stonehenge, July 2013
Despite being one of the most intensively explored prehistoric monuments in western Europe, Stonehenge continues to hold surprises. The principal elements of the complex are well known: the outer bank and ditch, the sarsen circle capped by lintels, the smaller bluestone settings and the massive central trilithons. They represent the final phase of Stonehenge, the end product of a complicated sequence that is steadily being refined (most recently …
‘A very fair field indeed…’: An Archaeology of the Common Lands of English Towns
A multiple cross-cultural comparison of approaches to learning
This study compares learning approaches of local English-speaking students and students from Asian countries studying at an Australian metropolitan university. The sample consists of students across 13 different countries. Unlike previous studies, students from Asian countries are subdivided into two categories: students from Confucian Heritage Cultures (CHC) and students from Asia-based non-Confucian Heritage Cultures (non-CHC). The rich diversi…
An Archaeology of Town Commons in England: A very fair field Indeed
Landscape Narratives: The South East Cheviots Project
‘The huts are now roofless, the fires of the hearths quenched for ever, the fortifications levelled; yet these ruins have out-lasted the erections of more civilized times, and they still remain to tell us something of the busy population who hunted, tended flocks, tilled the ground, and quarrelled and fought, at a very distant period (in the valley of the Breamish)’. George Tate (1863, 302) This paper describes the results of the South East Chevi…
Guard Chambers’: An Unquestioned Assumption in British Iron Age Studies
Recesses in the entrance passages of British hillforts have been found throughout the 20th century, mainly on sites in north Wales and the Welsh Marches, though some occur elsewhere. From their first discovery they have been assumed to be ‘guard rooms’ or ‘guard chambers’ and no discussion about their function has taken place. This paper is, an attempt to start such a discussion. The idea that these recesses were necessarily of defensive use is c…
Black Hawk down: A Story of Modern War
Already a classic of war reporting and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback, Black Hawk Down is Mark Bowden s brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. On October 3, 1993, about a hundred elite U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into the teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord and return to base. It w…
Virtual Avebury revisited: In defence of maps and plans
In their article 'Romancing the stones: towards a virtual and elemental Avebury' (Archaeological dialogues 1998, 5.2, 143-64), Joshua Pollard and Mark Gillings argued that traditional cartography no longer suffices to understand sites like Avebury. In the absence of excavation, new technological possibilities like Virtual Reality and GIS were according to them more than electronic gadgets but genuine alternatives to the usual maps and plans. Mark…
Black Hawk Down
Pitt Rivers. The Life and Archaeological Work of Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers, DCL, FRS, FSA
1. Introduction 2. Progress in modern musketry 3 Married life 4. Ethnology and anthropology 5. Early archaeological fieldwork 6. The Inspector of Ancient Monuments 7. Excavations in Cranborne Chase 8. Public education 9. The father of scientific archaeology
Landscape, Monuments and Society: The Prehistory of Cranborne Chase
Cranborne Chase, in central southern England, is the area where British field archaeology developed in its modern form. The site of General Pitt Rivers' pioneering excavations in the nineteenth century, Cranborne Chase also provides a microcosm of virtually all the major types of filed monument present in southern England as a whole. Much of the archaeological material has fortuitously survived, offering the fullest chronological cover of any par…
The Comby Hills at North Charlton, Northumberland
(1991). 2. The Comby Hills at North Charlton, Northumberland. Landscape History: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 65-67
A New Survey of Ingleborough Hillfort, North Yorkshire
A survey of Ingleborough was undertaken by RCHME in the summer of 1988 at the request of the Yorkshire Dales National Park who are concerned by the considerable erosion and damage occurring on the Peak as a result of the popularity of the Three Peaks footpath. This is affecting not only the natural surface of the hill but also the archaeological remains. The summit of Ingleborough, one of the Three Peaks of the Yorkshire Dales, is a gritstone cap…
Priority scores for archaeological evaluation
The new Monuments Protection Programme (Darvill et al. 1987; the November 1987 ANTIQUITY) will depend heavily on scoring systems to assess the relative value of different monuments and areas. Here are some comments by someone else with experience of scoring sites
The Date of the Dorset Cursus
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
South Lodge after Pitt Rivers
Between 1880 and 1893 General Pitt Rivers excavated two Bronze Age sites inside his park at Rushmore. In 1880 and 1884 he investigated a cemetery of six barrows at Barrow Pleck, and in 1893 he went on to examine the small enclosure known as South Lodge Camp, which is situated about 130m to the south. These excavations are reported in his volumes on Cranborne Chase, which are still referred to as a model of 'total publication' (Pitt Rivers, 1888, …
Pitt Rivers. The Life and Archaeological Work of Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers, DCL, FRS, FSA
1. Introduction 2. Progress in modern musketry 3 Married life 4. Ethnology and anthropology 5. Early archaeological fieldwork 6. The Inspector of Ancient Monuments 7. Excavations in Cranborne Chase 8. Public education 9. The father of scientific archaeology
Analytical Surveys of Stonehenge and its Environs, 2009–2013: Part 2 – the Stones
Non-invasive survey in the Stonehenge ‘Triangle’, Amesbury, Wiltshire, has highlighted a number of features that have a significant bearing on the interpretation of the site. Geophysical anomalies may signal the position of buried stones adding to the possibility of former stone arrangements, while laser scanning has provided detail on the manner in which the stones have been dressed; some subsequently carved with axe and dagger symbols. The prob…
Analytical Surveys of Stonehenge and its Immediate Environs, 2009–2013: Part 1 – the Landscape and Earthworks
Integrated non-invasive survey in the Stonehenge ‘triangle’, Amesbury, Wiltshire, has highlighted a number of features that have a significant bearing on the interpretation of the site. Among them are periglacial and natural topographical structures, including a chalk mound that may have influenced site development. Some geophysical anomalies are similar to the post-holes in the car park of known Mesolithic date, while others beneath the barrows …
Guard Chambers’: An Unquestioned Assumption in British Iron Age Studies
Recesses in the entrance passages of British hillforts have been found throughout the 20th century, mainly on sites in north Wales and the Welsh Marches, though some occur elsewhere. From their first discovery they have been assumed to be ‘guard rooms’ or ‘guard chambers’ and no discussion about their function has taken place. This paper is, an attempt to start such a discussion. The idea that these recesses were necessarily of defensive use is c…
Parchmarks at Stonehenge, July 2013
Despite being one of the most intensively explored prehistoric monuments in western Europe, Stonehenge continues to hold surprises. The principal elements of the complex are well known: the outer bank and ditch, the sarsen circle capped by lintels, the smaller bluestone settings and the massive central trilithons. They represent the final phase of Stonehenge, the end product of a complicated sequence that is steadily being refined (most recently …
A multiple cross-cultural comparison of approaches to learning
This study compares learning approaches of local English-speaking students and students from Asian countries studying at an Australian metropolitan university. The sample consists of students across 13 different countries. Unlike previous studies, students from Asian countries are subdivided into two categories: students from Confucian Heritage Cultures (CHC) and students from Asia-based non-Confucian Heritage Cultures (non-CHC). The rich diversi…
Landscape Narratives: The South East Cheviots Project
‘The huts are now roofless, the fires of the hearths quenched for ever, the fortifications levelled; yet these ruins have out-lasted the erections of more civilized times, and they still remain to tell us something of the busy population who hunted, tended flocks, tilled the ground, and quarrelled and fought, at a very distant period (in the valley of the Breamish)’. George Tate (1863, 302) This paper describes the results of the South East Chevi…
Virtual Avebury revisited: In defence of maps and plans
In their article 'Romancing the stones: towards a virtual and elemental Avebury' (Archaeological dialogues 1998, 5.2, 143-64), Joshua Pollard and Mark Gillings argued that traditional cartography no longer suffices to understand sites like Avebury. In the absence of excavation, new technological possibilities like Virtual Reality and GIS were according to them more than electronic gadgets but genuine alternatives to the usual maps and plans. Mark…
A New Survey of Ingleborough Hillfort, North Yorkshire
A survey of Ingleborough was undertaken by RCHME in the summer of 1988 at the request of the Yorkshire Dales National Park who are concerned by the considerable erosion and damage occurring on the Peak as a result of the popularity of the Three Peaks footpath. This is affecting not only the natural surface of the hill but also the archaeological remains. The summit of Ingleborough, one of the Three Peaks of the Yorkshire Dales, is a gritstone cap…
South Lodge after Pitt Rivers
Between 1880 and 1893 General Pitt Rivers excavated two Bronze Age sites inside his park at Rushmore. In 1880 and 1884 he investigated a cemetery of six barrows at Barrow Pleck, and in 1893 he went on to examine the small enclosure known as South Lodge Camp, which is situated about 130m to the south. These excavations are reported in his volumes on Cranborne Chase, which are still referred to as a model of 'total publication' (Pitt Rivers, 1888, …
The Date of the Dorset Cursus
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
South Lodge after Pitt Rivers
Between 1880 and 1893 General Pitt Rivers excavated two Bronze Age sites inside his park at Rushmore. In 1880 and 1884 he investigated a cemetery of six barrows at Barrow Pleck, and in 1893 he went on to examine the small enclosure known as South Lodge Camp, which is situated about 130m to the south. These excavations are reported in his volumes on Cranborne Chase, which are still referred to as a model of 'total publication' (Pitt Rivers, 1888, …
Priority scores for archaeological evaluation
The new Monuments Protection Programme (Darvill et al. 1987; the November 1987 ANTIQUITY) will depend heavily on scoring systems to assess the relative value of different monuments and areas. Here are some comments by someone else with experience of scoring sites
A New Survey of Ingleborough Hillfort, North Yorkshire
A survey of Ingleborough was undertaken by RCHME in the summer of 1988 at the request of the Yorkshire Dales National Park who are concerned by the considerable erosion and damage occurring on the Peak as a result of the popularity of the Three Peaks footpath. This is affecting not only the natural surface of the hill but also the archaeological remains. The summit of Ingleborough, one of the Three Peaks of the Yorkshire Dales, is a gritstone cap…
Landscape, Monuments and Society: The Prehistory of Cranborne Chase
Cranborne Chase, in central southern England, is the area where British field archaeology developed in its modern form. The site of General Pitt Rivers' pioneering excavations in the nineteenth century, Cranborne Chase also provides a microcosm of virtually all the major types of filed monument present in southern England as a whole. Much of the archaeological material has fortuitously survived, offering the fullest chronological cover of any par…
The Comby Hills at North Charlton, Northumberland
(1991). 2. The Comby Hills at North Charlton, Northumberland. Landscape History: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 65-67
Pitt Rivers. The Life and Archaeological Work of Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers, DCL, FRS, FSA
1. Introduction 2. Progress in modern musketry 3 Married life 4. Ethnology and anthropology 5. Early archaeological fieldwork 6. The Inspector of Ancient Monuments 7. Excavations in Cranborne Chase 8. Public education 9. The father of scientific archaeology
Black Hawk Down
Black Hawk down: A Story of Modern War
Already a classic of war reporting and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback, Black Hawk Down is Mark Bowden s brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. On October 3, 1993, about a hundred elite U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into the teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord and return to base. It w…
Virtual Avebury revisited: In defence of maps and plans
In their article 'Romancing the stones: towards a virtual and elemental Avebury' (Archaeological dialogues 1998, 5.2, 143-64), Joshua Pollard and Mark Gillings argued that traditional cartography no longer suffices to understand sites like Avebury. In the absence of excavation, new technological possibilities like Virtual Reality and GIS were according to them more than electronic gadgets but genuine alternatives to the usual maps and plans. Mark…
Guard Chambers’: An Unquestioned Assumption in British Iron Age Studies
Recesses in the entrance passages of British hillforts have been found throughout the 20th century, mainly on sites in north Wales and the Welsh Marches, though some occur elsewhere. From their first discovery they have been assumed to be ‘guard rooms’ or ‘guard chambers’ and no discussion about their function has taken place. This paper is, an attempt to start such a discussion. The idea that these recesses were necessarily of defensive use is c…
Landscape Narratives: The South East Cheviots Project
‘The huts are now roofless, the fires of the hearths quenched for ever, the fortifications levelled; yet these ruins have out-lasted the erections of more civilized times, and they still remain to tell us something of the busy population who hunted, tended flocks, tilled the ground, and quarrelled and fought, at a very distant period (in the valley of the Breamish)’. George Tate (1863, 302) This paper describes the results of the South East Chevi…
An Archaeology of Town Commons in England: A very fair field Indeed
‘A very fair field indeed…’: An Archaeology of the Common Lands of English Towns
A multiple cross-cultural comparison of approaches to learning
This study compares learning approaches of local English-speaking students and students from Asian countries studying at an Australian metropolitan university. The sample consists of students across 13 different countries. Unlike previous studies, students from Asian countries are subdivided into two categories: students from Confucian Heritage Cultures (CHC) and students from Asia-based non-Confucian Heritage Cultures (non-CHC). The rich diversi…
An Archaeology of Town Commons in England: 'A very fair field indeed'
Analytical Surveys of Stonehenge and its Immediate Environs, 2009–2013: Part 1 – the Landscape and Earthworks
Integrated non-invasive survey in the Stonehenge ‘triangle’, Amesbury, Wiltshire, has highlighted a number of features that have a significant bearing on the interpretation of the site. Among them are periglacial and natural topographical structures, including a chalk mound that may have influenced site development. Some geophysical anomalies are similar to the post-holes in the car park of known Mesolithic date, while others beneath the barrows …
Parchmarks at Stonehenge, July 2013
Despite being one of the most intensively explored prehistoric monuments in western Europe, Stonehenge continues to hold surprises. The principal elements of the complex are well known: the outer bank and ditch, the sarsen circle capped by lintels, the smaller bluestone settings and the massive central trilithons. They represent the final phase of Stonehenge, the end product of a complicated sequence that is steadily being refined (most recently …
Pattern and Progress: Field Systems of the Second and Early First Millennia BC in Southern Britain, by Judie English
Analytical Surveys of Stonehenge and its Environs, 2009–2013: Part 2 – the Stones
Non-invasive survey in the Stonehenge ‘Triangle’, Amesbury, Wiltshire, has highlighted a number of features that have a significant bearing on the interpretation of the site. Geophysical anomalies may signal the position of buried stones adding to the possibility of former stone arrangements, while laser scanning has provided detail on the manner in which the stones have been dressed; some subsequently carved with axe and dagger symbols. The prob…
Truth and Lies: What People Are Really Thinking
The landscapes of common land: History and ecology in Norfolk and beyond
This book is accurately described by its title. The first chapter provides an introduction both to the book itself and to the complex issue of what constitutes common land, with a description of th...
Archaeology (16 works) · Geography (15 works) · History (13 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (11 works) · Archaeological Research and Protection (6 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (6 works) · History (6 works) · Geology (5 works) · Geology (5 works) · Excavation (4 works)