Northern Pasts: Interpretations of the Later Prehistory of Northern England and Southern Scotland

These fourteen papers are taken from a conference held in Newcastle in 1998, focusing on the state of research in the prehistory of Northern England and Southern Scotland. Contents: Patterns in later Prehistory (Jan Harding) ; Towards a new prehistory for central Britain (Paul Frodsham) ; The Neolithic that never happened? (Clive Waddington) ; Wety Drybridge (Kenneth Brophy) ; Prehistoric cairnfields in Northumberland (Robert Johnston) ; Later prehistoric settlement in the northern uplands (Robert Young) ; Iron Age landscape in lowland East Yorkshire (Peter Halkon & Martin Millett) ; Recent research in the central Tweed Valley (Alicia Wise) ; Later Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in North-east England (Blaise Vyner) ; Neolithic and Bronze Age in the lowlands of North West England (Ron Cowell) ; Prehistoric settlement in northern Cumbria (Mike McCarthy) ; Iron Age in the southern Pennines (Bill Bevan) ; Later prehistoric settlement in west central Scotland (Derek Alexander) ; Site morphology and regional variation in south-west Scotland