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ISSN 1357-4442 Editor: Simon Denison

Issue no 44, May 1999

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Contents

News

Neolithic house and Roman temple on rail link route
Survey of SMRs paints a bleak picture
Plan to re-wet damaged Iron Age site
In Brief

Features

Seeing the cursus as a symbolic river
Kenneth Brophy tries to make sense of some of Britain's largest and earliest prehistoric monuments

Tolerating pagans for the sake of trade
Paganism may have survived for centuries after the arrival of Christianity, says Paul Blinkhorn

Turning a cave into a home sweet home
`Cavemen' lived in Britain as recently as this century. Chris Tolan-Smith reports

Places

Saxon London in a tale of two cities
In his second article on London, John Schofield describes new evidence for the two Saxon towns

Letters

covering Beowulf again, OGS Crawford and human origins

Comment

Improvements ahead for this magazine
Next year will bring more pages, colour and a redesign. Simon Denison explains

Books

Sally Crawford on strict monks who excelled at industry
Anne Woodward on Iron Age animals seen in everyday life
Jenny Moore on over a decade of gender archaeology
Paul Pettitt on approaching rock art as archaeology

CBA update

featuring education, conservation and buildings


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