British Archaeology, no 18, October 1996


Contents


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News

Early Christian church found on the Isle of May
Welsh royal court found in blown sand
Grimes Graves mined `for ritual reasons'
In Brief

Features

Buildings in the grip of preservation
Some conservationists say we preserve listed buildungs too much. Simon Denison reports.

Tight-fisted soldiers of Roman Britain
Army pay rises did little for Late Roman Britain's economy, says John Creighton

`Man the hunter' returns at Boxgrove
In the first of two articles, Mark Roberts assesses what the Boxgrove excavations, now ending, tell us about early human society

Letters

covering the `synagogue', tree-ring defence and Roman inefficiency

Comment

Tim Copeland on the change coming for higher education

Books

Jon Coulston on no decline and fall in the Roman army
Christopher Tolan-Smith on few advances in Mesolithic Scotland
Roger Thomas on photography is not just point-and-click
John Carmen on all the fun and games of a good battle

Interview

Simon Denison talks to Philip Gross


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