TY - BOOK ID - 135766635 TI - Bastions and barbed wire AU - Pollard, Tony. AU - Banks, Iain PY - 2008 SN - 128306135X 9047427068 9786613061355 9004173609 PB - Leiden : Boston [Mass.] : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Battlefields KW - Military archaeology. KW - Battles KW - Excavations (Archaeology) KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135766635 AB - Various papers on the archaeology of conflict, including battlefield archaeology. The main focus of the volume is confinement, as expressed by a wide variety of contexts. Most obviously these include Nazi concentration camps, which are in need of credible archaeological attention (the editorial points out the dangers of the misappropriation of archaeological and scientific techniques by Holocaust deniers). Other forms of confinement are examined in papers focussing on the archaeology of island defences and siege sites, with the sieges of Leith from 1650 and of Fort William from 1646 both recently being subject to archaeological investigation. Other contributions include a study of shell holes and field defences from the battle of the Bulge (1944). ER -