John M Coles F. S. A.

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First Name:	John
Middle Initials:	M
Surname:	Coles
Post Nominals:	F. S. A.
Wikidata Identifier:	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q44831611
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Monographs:

Title	Author	Year of Publication
A spirit of enquiry: essays for Ted Wright	Issue editor	1993
Archaeology by experiment	Author	1973
Arthur Bulleid and the Glastonbury Lake Village 1892--1992	Author	1992
Enlarging the Past; The contribution of wetland archaeology	Author	1995
European wetlands in prehistory	Issue editor	1987
Experimental archaeology	Author	1979
Experimental archaeology	Author	1979
Fenland Survey: An essay in landscape and persistence	Author	1994
Field Archaeology in Britain	Author	1972
Field archaeology in Britain	Author	1972
Industrious and fairly civilized: the Glastonbury lake village	Author	1995
People of the wetlands: bogs, bodies and lake-dwellers	Author	1989
Prehistory of the Somerset Levels	Author	1980
Prehistory of the Somerset Levels	Author	1989
Prehistory, priorities and society: the way forward. A report by the Prehistoric Society	Author	1984
Somerset Levels Papers 1	Editor	1975
Somerset Levels Papers 10	Editor	1984
Somerset Levels Papers 11	Editor	1985
Somerset Levels Papers 12	Editor	1986
Somerset Levels Papers 13. Meare Village East: The excavations of A. Bulleid and H. St. George Gray 1932-1956	Editor	1987
Somerset Levels Papers 14	Editor	1988
Somerset Levels Papers 15	Editor	1989
Somerset Levels Papers 2	Editor	1976
Somerset Levels Papers 3	Editor	1977
Somerset Levels Papers 4	Editor	1978
Somerset Levels Papers 5	Editor	1979
Somerset Levels Papers 6	Editor	1980
Somerset Levels Papers 7	Editor	1981
Somerset Levels Papers 8	Editor	1982
Somerset Levels Papers 9	Editor	1983
Studies in Ancient Europe	Editor	1968
Studies in ancient Europe: Essays presented to Stuart Piggott	Issue editor	1968
Sweet Track to Glastonbury: the Somerset Levels in prehistory	Author	1986
The Bronze Age in Europe: an introduction to the prehistory of Europe c 2000-700 BC	Author	1979
The Bronze Age in Europe: an introduction to the prehistory of Europe c 2000-700 BC	Author	1979
The Fenland evaluation project and other work in the Fens	Author	1988
The archaeology of Early Man	Author	1969
The archaeology of rural wetlands in England: proceedings of a conference sponsored by WARP and English Heritage on 20 January 1989	Issue editor	1989
The archaeology of wetlands introduction to value, nature, principles, and methods	Author	1984
Waterlogged wood: guidelines on the recording, sampling, conservation, and curation of structural wood	Author	1990
Waterlogged wood: the recording, sampling, conservation and curation of structural wood. Proceedings of a conference sponsored by WARP and English Heritage on 15 January 1990	Issue editor	1990

Journal Issues:

Title	Role	Year of Publication
NewsWARP 27	Editor	2000
NewsWARP 28	Editor	2000
NewsWARP 30	Editor	2002
NewsWARP 31	Editor	2002

Articles/Chapters:

Title	Role	Year of Publication
A 'Bann point' from Dumfriesshire	Author	1966
A Bronze Age decorated cist from Pool Farm, West Harptree: new analyses	Author	2002
A Bronze Sword from Douglas, Lanarkshire	Author	1957
A E Truckell, J G Scott and W F Cormack: a retrospective view	Author	2007
A Flat Axe from Chatteris Fen, Cambs.	Author	1964
A Late Bronze Age find from Pyot Dykes, Angus, Scotland, with associated gold, cloth, leather and wood remains	Author	1964
A Late Bronze Age shield from South Cadbury, Somerset, England	Author	1999
A Neolithic god-dolly from Somerset, England	Author	1967
A Neolithic hurdle from the Somerset Levels	Author	1976
A Neolithic hurdle from the Somerset Levels Walton Heath	Author	1976
A Neolithic wooden mallet from the Somerset Levels	Author	1972
A Rapier and its Scabbard from West Row, Suffolk.	Author	1967
A Rock Carving from South-West Ireland	Author	1965
A jade axe from the Somerset Levels	Author	1974
A late Bronze Age vessel from Flaxby	Author	1964
A mesolithic site at Low Clone, Wigtownshire	Author	1968
A neolihic god-dolly from Somerset	Author	1967
Ancient man in Europe	Author	1968
Appreciation: L V Grinsell	Author	1995
Archaeology by experience: `Bronze Age' shields made at Cambridge	Author	1963
Archaeology in the Somerset Levels	Author	1973
Archaeology in the Somerset Levels	Author	1973
Archaeology, drainage and politics in the Somerset Levels	Author	1983
Books Reviews	Author	1999
Bronze Age metalwork in Dumfries and Galloway	Author	1965
Bronze Age spearheads with gold decoration	Author	1971
Celebration and Reflection The Severn Estuary Levels After 10 Years; the Severn Estuary Levels after ten years	Author	2000
Contributions to prehistory offered to Grahame Clarke	Issue editor	1971
Dendrochronology of the English Neolithic	Author	1990
Dowris and the Late Bronze Age of Ireland: a footnote	Author	1971
Découvertes archéologiques dans les terres basses des Somerset Levels, Angleterre Archaeological discoveries in the Somerset Levels	Author	1984
Energetic activities of commoners	Author	2001
European Bronze Age Shields	Author	1962
Excavations at Grandtully, Perthshire	Author	1990
Excavations at Kilmelfort Cave, Argyll [Mesolithic artefacts]	Author	1983
Excavations at MacNaughton's Fort, Kirkcudbright	Author	1966
Excavations of Late Bronze Age or Iron Age date at Washingborough Fen	Author	1979
Experimental archaeology	Author	1966
Functional archaeology	Author	1966
Green in the Somerset Levels	Author	1990
Homo sapiens or Castor fiber? recognition of beaver activity in forest clearance	Author	1983
Introduction --; swimming against the tide	Author	2005
Irish Bronze Age Horns and their relations with Northern Europe	Author	1963
Irish bogs - the time is now	Author	1984
John Grahame Douglas Clark 1907--1995	Author	1997
Later Bronze Age activity in the Somerset Levels	Author	1972
Lifting the Walton hurdles	Author	1975
Lost British opportunities?	Author	1983
Mesolithic site at Low Clone, Wigtownshire	Author	1968
Metal analyses and the Scottish Early Bronze Age	Author	1969
Metal analysis and the Scottish Early Bronze Age	Author	1969
Morton revisited fresh thoughts on the Meso site in Fife	Author	1983
Music of Bronze Age Europe	Author	1978
New Aspects of the Mesolithic Settlement of South-West Scotland	Author	1962
Of water-wings and wellingtons: wetland archaeology and the new journal	Author	2001
Parade and display: experiments in Bronze Age Europe	Author	1977
Passages of Time	Author	1998
Precision, purpose and priorities in wetland archaeology	Author	1986
Prehistoric brass instruments	Author	1980
Prehistoric roads and tracks in Somerset, England: 1 Neolithic	Author	1968
Prehistoric roads and tracks in Somerset, England: 2, Neolithic	Author	1970
Prehistoric roads and tracks in Somerset, England: 2, Neolithic	Author	1970
Prehistoric roads and tracks in Somerset, England: 3, the Sweet Track	Author	1973
Prehistoric roads and tracks in Somerset, England: I, Neolithic	Author	1968
Prehistoric roads and tracks in Somerset: 3. The Sweet Track	Author	1973
Presidential address: the donkey and the tail	Author	1980
Recent radiocarbon dates for Scotland	Author	1969
Reconciling tree-ring sampling with conservation	Author	1981
Reconsideration of the Ambleside hoard and the burial at Butts Beck quarry, Dalton-in-Furness.	Author	1965
Report of CBA Conference on the British Bronze Age	Author	1960
Scottish Early Bronze Age metalwork	Author	1968
Scottish Late Bronze Age Metalwork: Typology, Distribution and Chronology	Author	1959
Scottish Middle Bronze Age metalwork	Author	1963
Scottish swan's-neck sunflower pins	Author	1958
Some Irish horns of the Late Bronze Age	Author	1967
Somerset Levels Project	Author	1980
The 1857 Law Farm Morayshire hoard of gold ornaments	Author	1968
The 1857 Law Farm hoard: an addition	Author	1975
The Bronze Age in northwestern Europe: problems and advances	Author	1982
The Fenland Project survey in progress	Author	1983
The Fenland Project: from survey to management and beyond	Author	1997
The Hilton (Dorset) Gold Ornaments	Author	1963
The Late Bronze Age Hoard from Peelhill, Strathaven, Lanarkshire	Author	1962
The Meare Heath trackway: excavation of a Bronze Age structure in the Somerset Levels	Author	1976
The Salta Moss Rapier.	Author	1961
The Somerset Levels Projection	Author	1978
The Torran Hoard	Author	1962
The Wessex Culture: a minimal view	Author	1971
The donkey and the tail: presidential address	Author	1980
The early settlement of Scotland: excavations at Morton, Fife	Author	1971
The early settlement of Scotland: excavations of a Mesolithic settlement at Morton, Fife	Author	1971
The excavation of a midden in the Culbin Sands, Morayshire	Author	1969
The excavations of a Neolithic round barrow at Pitnacree, Perthshire, Scotland	Author	1965
The peat hag 12th de Cardi Lecture, given 1987	Author	1988
The use and character of wood in prehistoric Britain and Ireland	Author	1978
The world's oldest road Sweet Track, Somerset Levels	Author	1989
Timber and radiocarbon dates	Author	1975
Tinned axes	Author	1980
UK peat bogs	Author	2002