Books written or edited by Prof. Mick Aston
Together with links to book chapters available for free download
General
- Tony Robinson and Professor Mick Aston, Archaeology is Rubbish: A
beginner's guide to excavation (Channel 4/Pan Macmillan 2002).
- Mick Aston, Mick's Archaeology
(Tempus: London 2000; revised edn. 2002). History Today
Award 2001: New Generation History Book.
- Victor Ambrus and Mick Aston, Recreating the Past (Tempus
2001). History Today Awards 2002: New Generation History Book,
joint winner.
- Carenza Lewis, Phil Harding and Mick Aston, ed. Tim Taylor, Time
Team's Timechester: A companion to archaeology (London 2000).
- Mick Aston and Tim Taylor, Atlas of Archaeology: The definitive
guide to the location, history and significance of the world's most
important archaeological sites and finds (Dorling Kindersley: London
1998). Also Dutch, German, Italian and Spanish editions.
- Mick Aston, An Archaeological A-Z (Channel 4 Television:
London 1994).
Landscape
- Mick Aston, Interpreting the Landscape from the Air (Tempus:
Stroud 2002).
- Michael Aston, Interpreting the Landscape: Landscape archaeology in
local studies (Batsford: London 1985); 2nd edn. [minor corrections
to the text and additions to the bibliography] Interpreting the
Landscape: Landscape, archaeology and local history (Routledge:
London 1997).
- Michael Aston and Carenza Lewis (eds.), The Medieval Landscape of
Wessex (Oxbow: Oxford 1994).
- Robert Croft and Michael Aston,Somerset from the Air
(Somerset County Council: Taunton 1993).
- Michael Aston (ed.), Aspects of the Mediaeval Landscape of
Somerset: contributions to the landscape history of the county
(Somerset County Council: [Taunton] 1988).
- Michael Aston (ed.), Medieval Fish, Fisheries and Fishponds in
England, 2 vols. (British Archaeological Reports: British series
vol. 182: Oxford 1988).
- Michael Aston and Trevor Rowley, Landscape Archaeology: an
introduction to fieldwork techniques on post-Roman landscapes (David
and Charles: Newton Abbot 1974).
Monasteries
- Mick Aston, Early monasteries in Somerset - models and agendas, in M.
Ecclestone et al (eds.), The
Land of the Dobunni (2003, revised edn 2009). Free download in
pdf format, or available in paperback.
- Glyn Coppack and Mick Aston (eds.), Christ's Poor Men: The
Carthusians in Britain (Tempus 2002; NPI Media Group; illustrated
edition 2008).
- Graham Keevill, Mick Aston and Teresa Hall (eds.), Monastic
Archaeology: Papers on the study of medieval monasteries (Oxford:
Oxbow Books, 2001). This book is partly based on a conference held in
Oxford in 1994 and includes Michael Aston, "The expansion of the monastic
and religious orders in Europe from the 11th century".
- Michael Aston, Monasteries (Batsford: London 1993);
reprinted with 16 pages of colour photographs as Monasteries in the
Landscape (Tempus: London 2000).
- Mick
Aston, Monasteries in Somerset in Somerset Archaeology: Papers to
Mark 150 Years of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History
Society, edited by C. J. Webster (2000). Free download in pdf
format.
- Michael Aston, Monks and Monasteries in Twelfth Century Wessex
(University of Bristol, Department for Continuing Education
1995).
Settlement
- Michael Aston and James Bond, The Landscape of Towns (London
1976), reprinted (Sutton: Stroud 1987, 2000).
- Mick
Aston, Medieval rural settlement in Somerset Archaeology: Papers
to Mark 150 Years of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History
Society , edited by C. J. Webster (2000). Free download in pdf
format.
- Michael Aston, David Austin and Christopher Dyer (eds.), The Rural
Settlements of Medieval England (Blackwell: Oxford 1989).
- Michael Aston and Roger Leech, Historic Towns in Somerset:
archaeology and planning (Bristol 1977).
Shapwick
- Chris Gerrard and Mick Aston (eds.), The
Shapwick Project, Somerset: A Rural Landscape Explored, Society
for Medieval Archaeology Monograph 25 (2007).
- Mick Aston, Teresa Hall and Chris Gerrard (eds.), The Shapwick
Project: an archaeological, historical and topographical study
(Bristol: University of Bristol, Department for Continuing Education 1998)
[Report 8].
- Michael A. Aston, The Shapwick Project : an archaeological,
historical and topographical study (University of Bristol,
Department for Continuing Education 1995) [Report 6].
- Michael A. Aston and Michael D. Costen (eds.), The Shapwick
Project: a topographical and historical study (University of
Bristol, Dept. for Continuing Education 1994) [Report 5].
- Michael A. Aston and Michael D. Costen (eds.), The Shapwick
Project: a topographical and historical study (University of
Bristol, Dept. for Continuing Education 1993) [Report 4].
- Michael A. Aston and Michael D. Costen (eds.), The Shapwick
Project: a topographical and historical study (University of
Bristol, Dept. for Continuing Education 1992) [Report 3].
- Michael Aston (ed.), The Shapwick Project: a topographical and
historical study (University of Bristol, Dept. for Continuing
Education [1989]) [Report 2].
- Michael Aston, The Shapwick Project: a topographical and historical
study (University of Bristol, Extra-Mural Dept. 1989) [Report
1].
Local
- Michael Aston and Rob Iles (eds.), The Archaeology of Avon: A
review from the Neolithic to the Middle Ages (Avon County Council
[Bristol 1987]).
- Michael Aston and Ian Burrow (eds.), The Archaeology of Somerset: A
review to 1500 AD (Somerset County Council: Taunton 1982).
- Michael Aston, Stonesfield Slate (Oxfordshire County Council
Department of Museum Services vol. 5, Oxfordshire County Council: Oxford
1974).
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