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ISSN 1357-4442Editor: Simon Denison

Issue no 31, February 1998

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Contents

News

Ridgeway hillforts reveal their little differences
First Dark Age settlement in mid-Wales
Villa sited `away from major towns'
In Brief

Features

Roads that ramble, and roads that run
In the first of a new series of features on the historic landscape, Paul Hindle explains some of the peculiarities of British roads

Executions and hard Anglo-Saxon justice
Hanged or beheaded Saxon skeletons belonged to executed criminals, who were condemned to a tormented afterlife, writes Andrew Reynolds

When there is no end to a good game
Some board games have been played for 1,000 years. Ian Riddler reports

Regions

Cornish farms in prehistoric farmyards
In the first of a new series on recent advances in the archaeology of different regions of Britain, Nicholas Johnson looks at Cornwall

Letters

covering peat destruction, left-handed tools, Stonehenge, cave burials, Welsh heritage and owning the past

Comment

Collapse of public-interest archaeology
The Government and English Heritage seem unconcerned, writes Richard Morris

Books

Martin Evison on new faces and a helping of guesswork
Ken Dark on mathematics and archaeological change
Simon Denison on Photography, vision and ancient sites

Essay

Stumbling in the footsteps of St Thomas
Rock art scholars are stuck in their drug-culture phase, writes Paul Bahn


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