A valuable addition to the military and literary analysis of the archaeology of warfare from the Boudiccan uprising to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.

Military and battlefield archaeology has always been viewed as a sub-discipline to that of traditional historical archaeology. Once considered the pursuit of learned history professors and their disciples today, military archaeology has flourished around the world into what can only best be described as a hugely popular pastime, and in some instances a multi-million-pound business.

With technologies available today, even the student on the most modest of budgets can become an archaeologist (if only in the layman’s term). Yet despite it’s popularity in unearthing answers to the questions of our turbulent past, there are surprisingly few texts available on what is arguably a fascinating and historically important subject. The objective herein is to present an analysis of various battles fought around the world from medieval times to the present, and the archaeology recovered from investigations carried out by professionally sanctioned groups and hobbyists. The context here includes general battlefield recovered artifacts, military aviation crash sites, Second World War pill boxes, air raid shelters, POW Camps and other structures. There is also emphasis on Britain’s ally in both world wars, the United States of America, examining the artifacts, wreckology, structures and dumping grounds left behind by the American military forces at the end of the Second World War both in the UK and Europe.

Military Archaeology: How Detectorists and Major Finds Improve our Understanding of History is a valuable addition to the military and literary analysis of the archaeology of warfare from the Boudiccan uprising to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.

• Cover
• Dedication
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. Eyes on the Ground
• 2. Getting Started
• 3. England’s Bloody History
• 4. England’s Battles with Scotland
• 5. Waterloo
• 6. The Anglo-Zulu War 1879
• 7. The Second Anglo-Boer War 1899–1902
• 8. The First World War 1914–1918
• 9. The Second World War 1939–1945
• 10. France & Belgium
• 11. Poland, Ukraine, Russia & Germany
• 12. Second World War Structures, Airfields & Dumping Grounds
• 13. Second World War Aircraft Recovery
• 14. Tale of a Tailplane
• 15. Ghosts of the 1982 Falklands War
• 16. The 1991 Gulf War & 2003 Invasion of Iraq
• 17. The Trade in Archaeological Militaria
• Afterword
• Acknowledgements
• About the Authors
• Plates