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ISSN 1357-4442 Editor: Simon Denison

Issue no 39, November 1998

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Contents

News

Prehistoric boundaries `in medieval open fields'
Hillforts occupied `only in later years'
Bronze Age `bunsen burner' discovered
In Brief

Features

Changing materials, changing bridges
Bridges were built in much the same way for centuries. Then they changed. Bill Smyth explains

Finding Beowulf in Kent's landscape
Place-names and topography locate the Beowulf story near Faversham, claims Paul Wilkinson

Seeing the past in standard images
Pictorial reconstructions have always shaped people's thinking about the past, writes Stephanie Moser

Regions

All was change, and then change again
Early maps record the multiple transformations of central Scotland in 200 years. Steve Boyle reports

Letters

covering Roman conquest and lost ditches

Comment

Journey through history to Penda's fen
Maps and signs point to the past still living in today's land, writes Richard Morris

Books

Stephen Hughes on industrial growth and marginal land
Ernest Black on doubting Togidubnus at Fishbourne
Stuart Wrathmell on a wider vision for industrial research
Alasdair Whittle on a book for the man who loves megaliths

Essay

Freedom fighters under a mystic cloak
There was more to Druidism in Gaul and Britain then mistletoe and beards, says Jane Webster


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