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ISSN 1357-4442 Editor: Simon Denison

Issue no 43, April 1999

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Contents

News

Signs of body-snatchers in Quaker burial ground
Monuments re-used for Saxon defence
Medicines identified from the Mary Rose
In Brief

Features

Bury the dead in a sacred landscape
Bronze Age barrows are often found near rivers, lakes and springs. David Field explains why

Ancient history of trips to the dentist
Archaeologists are beginning to recognise evidence for past dental treatment, says Chrissie Freeth

Fact, fiction, legend and Lorna Doone
Rob Wilson-North investigates the archaeology of Exmoor's best known fictional settlement

Places

From frontier town to stately capital
John Schofield looks at new evidence for Roman London, in the first of three articles on the archaeology of London

Letters

covering Saxon weirs, hill figures and flint axes

Comment

Victory at Tewkesbury's battlefield
Richard Morris explains why the decision to preserve the field matters

Books

Martin Dean on getting it all wrong about shipwrecks
Guy Halsall on how peasant Gauls became urban Romans
Ross Samson on claiming Finnish origins for Picts
Simon Denison on why Time Team is no frivolous show

Essay

Only one way to scratch up the dirt
Paul Stamper praises the archaeologist's favourite tool - a nice, battered old trowel


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