2018-12-09
As a tour of ancient sites it makes for interesting reading, but some of Oliver’s commentary is quite bizarre. He also struggles to bring everything together into an actual narrative, offering no explanation of how iron reached Britain, and almost no mention of the Indo-European peoples.
Altogether, somewhat disappointing – as a first taster of ancient archaeology I found it interesting, but there are almost certainly much better books out there.
Rating: 3/5