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ISSN 1357-4442Editor: Simon Denison

Issue no 2, March 1995

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Contents

News

Welsh monastery found to have Roman origins
Coal first used in the Iron Age
Bones and medieval air pollution
In Brief

Features

Ochre and sexual deception
Red ochre, common on Palaeolithic sites, was first used as a trick to insure sexual fidelity, write Chris Knight and Camilla Power

Our battered land
Historic features of the countryside are still under assault, writes Simon Denison

Killing the unwanted child
Infanticide is as old as man. Simon Mays assesses evidence from the Palaeolithic to the modern age, including new evidence from Roman Britain.

Letters

covering metal detecting, museum storage, Roman London and cultural viruses

Comment

Frances Griffith on rural conservation
Mick Cuddeford with a detectorist's view of metal detecting and archaeology

Books

John Creighton on Euro-sceptics of Roman Britain
Patrick Greene on presenting the past safely
Cyril Hart on King Cnut

Obituary

Ralph Merrifield

Interview

Simon Denison talks to Chris Salisbury


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