Publications
The following South West Heritage Trust publications are available for purchase from the Somerset Heritage Centre, Avalon Archaeology and The Museum of Somerset. Most are also available through the Somerset Library Service.
- The Lost Islands of Somerset (also available from Brendon Books and Somerset Crafts)
- Archaeology of Avalon – a Journey into a Lost Landscape
- Voices from the Peat – An Oral History of the Avalon Marshes
- Roman Mosaics in Somerset
- Taunton Priory Excavations
- The Avalon Marshes – A Peatland Story (Audio CD)
- The Avalon Marshes – A Peatland Story (Braille Booklet and CD)
Other publications can be downloaded for free, including:
- Somerset Archaeology Handbook (2025 draft)
- Mendip Hills National Landscape: State of the Heritage report (2025)
- Somerset Archaeology: Papers to mark 150 years of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society (2000)
- Extensive Urban Surveys for the main towns of Somerset (1994-1998)
Academic publications concerning the archaeology of Somerset can be seen below:
- Hill, T.C.B., Hill, G.E., Brunning, R., Banerjea, R.Y., Fyfe, R.M., Hogg, A.G., Jones, J., Perez, M. and Smith, D.N. 2018. Glastonbury Lake Village Revisited: A Multi-proxy Palaeoenvironmental Investigation of an Iron Age Wetland Settlement, Journal of Wetland Archaeology, 18, 115-137
- Banerjea, R. Y., Morandi, L.F., Williams, K. and Brunning, R. 2021. Hidden Husbandry: Disentangling a Disturbed Profile at Beckery Chapel, a Medieval Ecclesiastical Site Near Glastonbury (UK), Environmental Archaeology, 26, 367-387
- Marshall, P., Brunning, R., Minnitt, S., Bronk Ramsey, C., Dunbar, E. and Reimer, P.J. 2020. The chronology of Glastonbury Lake Village. Antiquity, 94, Issue 378, pp. 1464 – 1481
- Patterson, N. et al. 2021. Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age. Nature.
- Brunning, R. 2022. Preserving and dating Glastonbury Lake Village, Somerset
- Matthiesen, H., Brunning, R., Carmichael, B. and Hollesen, J. 2022. Wetland archaeology and the impact of climate change. Antiquity 96, Issue 390, 1412-1426
- Brunning, R. 2022. Sweet Track site SWB Project 7500. Report for Historic England Research Report 5.2022
- Brunning, R., 2024. Glastonbury Lake Village, Somerset and prehistoric wetland settlements in England. In M. Knight, R. Ballantyne, M. Brudenell, A. Cooper, D. Gibson, and I. Robinson Zeki, (2024). Must Farm pile-dwelling settlement: Volume 1. Landscape, architecture and occupation., 237-246. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
- Brunning, R. 2024. Dating and analysis of the Godney Canoe. Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeology and Natural History Society, 167, 63-73.
- Brunning, R. 2025. Adventures with a Hypocaust and Mass Cob Walling. In L.G. Nicolaou, T. Ivleva and B. Griffiths (eds.) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Experimental Approaches to Roman Archaeology, 89-101. Bloomsbury Academic. London.
- Brunning, R. and Grove, J. 2025. Investigations of a Late Bronze Age hillfort on Cothelstone Hill. Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeology and Natural History Society, 168, 56-68.
Teaching resources
The following are useful teaching resources relating to archaeology:
- Pre-history film series for teachers (YouTube link)
The Trust also has a more general page for Schools and Teachers.
Films
The South West Heritage Trust has several playlists on their YouTube channel that have archaeological themes. These are:
- Avalon Archaeology (YouTube link)
- Archaeology (YouTube link)
- Archaeology at Cannington (YouTube link)
- Archaeology at Hinkley Point (YouTube link)
- Somerset Levels & Moors (YouTube link)