Over the centuries Britain`s soil has yielded countless spectacular hoards of ancient coins & other artefacts, affording us priceless insights into our ancestors` lives
- & it is not only such large finds that await discovery but also many thousands of individual pieces. Wonderfully, discoveries both minor & momentous are frequently made not by teams of professionals but by amateur archaeologists & metal-detector enthusiasts, for whom this book is intended as a helpful companion. It provides a catalogue of commonly encountered coins, dating from ancient times until the modern day, explaining their historical context, how they might have come to be lost & where they may be found today.
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Two babies are left in a Tokyo station coin locker & survive against the odds, but their lives are forever tainted by this inauspicious start. As they grow up, they join the ranks of Toxitown: a district of addicts, freaks & prostitutes. One becomes a bisexual rock star & looks for his mother, while the other one, an athlete, seeks revenge. This savage & stunning story unfolds in a surrealistic whirl of violence. ...

The Coin Purse & Mirror by Wild & Wolf featuring a historical map extract of Paris, with decorative blue ribbon & zip fastening. Made of synthetic leather, with blue & white stripe lining, the purse offers two compartments, one for the coins that closes with a zip & another for a travel mirror. The impact-resistant plastic mirror is framed with material & design matching the purse. The map extracts feature a historical map of Paris ...

Map No. 1344, Col de Balme, in the topographic survey of Switzerland at 1:25, 000 from Bundesamt für Landestopographie (swisstopo), covering the whole country on 247 small format sheets, with special larger maps published for popular regions including some titles now available in hiking versions. Highly regarded for their superb use of graphic relief & hill shading, the maps give an almost 3-D picture of Switzerland`s mountainous terrain. Contours are at 10 m intervals, with 20m intervals in the mountainous areas. All the maps have a 1-km grid for Swiss national coordinates (datum CH 1903). * Small format sheets (Nos. 1011
- 1374)* Map legend in the language of the area covered by the map. Additional margin ticks show latitude & longitude in steps of 2`. The area covered by each map is 17 x 12 km (11 x 7 miles approx). * Special larger sheets (Nos. from 2501 onwards) – STANDARD editions:* No map legend is included but a separate leaflet can be provided instead. The area covered by each map is 25 x 17 km (15 x 11 miles approx).* Special larger sheets (Nos. from 2501 onwards) – HIKING editions:* An overprint highlights hiking, mountain & alpine paths, including regional & national long-distance trails. The maps also show bus routes with bus stops, plus inns in remote locations. The area covered by each map is 25 x 17 km (15 x 11 miles approx).
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Map No. 1260, Col de la Faucille, in the topographic survey of Switzerland at 1:25, 000 from Bundesamt für Landestopographie (swisstopo), covering the whole country on 247 small format sheets, with special larger maps published for popular regions including some titles now available in hiking versions. Highly regarded for their superb use of graphic relief & hill shading, the maps give an almost 3-D picture of Switzerland`s mountainous terrain. Contours are at 10 m intervals, with 20m intervals in the mountainous areas. All the maps have a 1-km grid for Swiss national coordinates (datum CH 1903). * Small format sheets (Nos. 1011
- 1374)* Map legend in the language of the area covered by the map. Additional margin ticks show latitude & longitude in steps of 2`. The area covered by each map is 17 x 12 km (11 x 7 miles approx). * Special larger sheets (Nos. from 2501 onwards) – STANDARD editions:* No map legend is included but a separate leaflet can be provided instead. The area covered by each map is 25 x 17 km (15 x 11 miles approx).* Special larger sheets (Nos. from 2501 onwards) – HIKING editions:* An overprint highlights hiking, mountain & alpine paths, including regional & national long-distance trails. The maps also show bus routes with bus stops, plus inns in remote locations. The area covered by each map is 25 x 17 km (15 x 11 miles approx).
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A handy-sized road map of the region, with bilingual notes for tourists. The main map (scale unspecified) is a panoramic oblique-view road map of the wider region northwest of Arequipa, including Colca Canyon, Cotahuasi Canyon, the Majes & Ocoña rivers & Arequipa itself. Hill shading models the general relief to give a 3D effect, with snow capped peaks highlighted. Further detail is limited to main roads, rivers & towns. Accompanying historical & geographical notes in the margin are in Spanish & English. On the reverse are two conventional road maps of Colca Canyon & Cotahuasi Canyon at 1:225, 000 clearly indicating roads, trails, general relief, elevations, towns & villages. Symbols denote ruins, hot springs, mines, points of interest, recreational opportunities eg. trekking, river rafting & hang-gliding, & there is & indication of towns which provide accommodation & services for tourists. Further bilingual notes outline the attractions, places to visit, holidays & events. Legend is also in Spanish & English. ...

Map No. 168, Colchester, in the Ordnance Survey Landranger series at 1:50, 000 including Burnham-on-Crouch, Hullbridge, South Woodham Ferrers, Cock Clarks, Maylandsea, Southminster, Tillingham, Bradwell on Sea, Maldon, Tollesbury, Great Totham, Tiptree, Witham, Kelvedon, Silver End, Layer de la Haye, Marks Tey, Coggeshall, Earls Colne, Halstead, Wivenhoe, West Mersea, Brightlingsea, Clacton-on-Sea, St Osyth, Little Clacton, Great Bentley, Weeley, Great Oackley, Elmstead Market, Wix, Manningtree, Ardleigh, West Bergholt & Great Horkesley, with Mersea Isl&, estuaries of the Blackwater & the Colne & a part of the E2 European Long-distance path along the Stour Valley. Editon C2; Revised for selected changes 2006; Copyright date: 2006 This title is also available on our website in a waterproof & tear-resistant version. Maps in this series are only published folded. Stanfords can also print flat versions of Ordnance Survey maps through the OS Select system, centring the map on a location of your choice & with a picture provided by you on the cover. For more information please click on the link at the bottom of this description. About Ordnance Survey ...

This is a new edition in the AA's ground-breaking series of street atlases covering Colchester in a handy glovebox size; fully updated with a stylish new cover design. The atlas uses the latest digital data for Britain from Ordnance Survey & the AA & also

Includes:: National Grid Referencing as used by the emergency services. Plus, Unique to Street by Street, district names head each page for easy reference. All of the maps clearly show recommended restaurants, hotels, one-way streets & car parks, with 24-hour petrol stations now highlighted. Featuring a clever use of colour to ensure they can be read under street lighting, these maps are all you need to keep you on the move.

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Colchester, Clacton-on-Sea, Harwich & Sudbury Street Atlas from the Geographers` A-Z Map Company in a paperback format slightly smaller than A5. Map scale is 1:19, 000 (3.33” to a mile), with an enlargement showing the town centre of Colchester in greater detail at 1:9, 500 (6.66” to 1 mile). Coverage

Includes:: Alresford, Brightlingsea, Frinton-on-Sea, Halstead, Lawford, Manningtree, Marks Tey, Tiptree, Wivenhoe, Walton-on-the-Naze, West Bergholt & West Mersea. Current edition of this title was published in 2015. To see other titles in this series of A-Z street atlases of towns & cities please click on the series link. A-Z also publish a series of County Street Atlases, for a list of titles in that series please search for SI00000917.A-Z street atlases present motorways plus A & B roads highlighted by colouring & shown with route numbers. One way or restricted access streets & car parks are marked, as are in more recently published titles locations of speed cameras. Also shown are selected cycleway routes. Where appropriate, A & B roads are annotated with selected house numbers for easier identification of addresses. Railway lines are shown with stations & level crossings. Colouring indicates different types of buildings: educational, hospitals & healthcare, industrial, leisure & recreational, shopping centres & markets, public buildings, & places of interest. Symbols mark locations of facilities usually indicated on street mapping: post offices, emergency services, public toilets, etc. Also marked are postcode & local authority boundaries. Each page has the lines & coordinates of the British National Grid. The indexes list streets, places & areas, hospitals, industrial estates, blocks of flats on housing estates, railway stations, & selected places o interest; the latter are printed in contrasting colouring to make them easier to find.

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Map No. 168, Colchester 1805, in the Cassini Historical Series of old Ordnance Survey mapping of England & Wales at 1:50, 000 in a format designed to offer a convenient comparison with the present day coverage from the OS, & most locations in three different editions. Old historical maps have been combined so that the sheet lines correspond to the current Landranger series & reproduced with the scale changed from one inch to one mile to 1:50, 000. Most locations are covered by three separate maps, showing how the area has changed over the decades, with selected major cities also presented in a fourth edition. Old Series: the first detailed survey mapping dating for most areas from the first half of the 19th century, in black & white & with relief shown by hachuring. Revised New Series from 1880s/1900s, with some colouring & a mixture of hachuring & contour lines. Popular Edition from the inter-war years, with contour lines & colouring to indicate woodlands, parks, etc. New Popular Edition from the late 1940s, reproduced in the Cassini series for the major cities. Each map

Includes:: notes on the development of Ordnance Survey & the various series produced by them. For those interested in maps & cartography in general, the Cassini series also provides a fascinating insight into how Ordnance Survey cartographic style has developed over a period of over 100 years. Coverage in this title

Includes:: present day Burnham-on-Crouch, Hullbridge, South Woodham Ferrers, Cock Clarks, Maylandsea, Southminster, Tillingham, Bradwell on Sea, Maldon, Tollesbury, Great Totham, Tiptree, Witham, Kelvedon, Silver End, Layer de la Haye, Marks Tey, Coggeshall, Earls Colne, Halstead, Wivenhoe, West Mersea, Brightlingsea, Clacton-on-Sea, St Osyth, Little Clacton, Great Bentley, Weeley, Great Oackley, Elmstead Market, Wix, Manningtree, Ardleigh, West Bergholt & Great Horkesley, with Mersea Island & the estuaries of the Blackwater & the Colne. PLEASE NOTE: Stanfords can also print on request mapping from all four series centring the map on a location of your choice. For more information please click on the link below.



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