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ISSN 1357-4442 Editor: Simon Denison

Issue no 40, December 1998

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Contents

News

Building proposals at two more English battlefields
Inverted tree found inside timber ring
Chatham warship `interred in a shrine'
In Brief

Features

Remembering the dead on stone markers
Churchyards have changed much over the centuries, explains Harold Mytum

An ideology that faded in a New Age
Prehistoric rock art retains many mysteries, but much can now be explained, writes Stan Beckensall

Hunting the survivors of Dad's army
Remains of Home Guard structures survive all over Britain, reports Bernard Lowry

Regions

Limits of Viking influence in Wales
Wales experienced sporadic raids, a few settlers and trade, writes Mark Redknap

Letters

covering Roman conquest and petrol stations

Comment

The great prize of starlit Stonehenge
The new plans for Stonehenge deserve support, writes Francis Pryor

Books

Dave Evans on new work on Iron Age East Yorkshire
Paul Miller on theory, philosophy and ethics of GIS
Julian Thomas on explaining why people built monuments

Essay

The unending story of Oxford in peril
Now Oxford Castle itself is threatened by a development scheme, writes John Steane


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