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Issue 59

June 2001

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news

Quarries threat to archaeological landscapes

Digging down through rubbish to reach the 'best-preserved Victorian ironworks in Wales'

Prestige feasting 'dates back to hunter-gatherer era'

Unique Roman town indentified in hinterland of Hadrian's Wall

Bronze Age village found with buried megalith

In Brief

features

The edible dead
Cannibalsim as a universal human practice, by Tim Taylor

The glory that was York
Cosmopolitan York in the 8th century, by Dominic Tweddle

Town of tin
A 20th centruy town that has now disappeared, by Bill Bevan

Great Sites
Balladoole, by Mark Redknap

letters

Ancient thatch, feasting, Northumbria, hillforts

issues

George Lambrick on the varied impacts of foot and mouth

Peter Ellis

Regular column

books

Britain and the End of the Roman Empire by Ken Dark

Time Team's Timechester by Lewis, Harding and Aston

The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture by Jacques Cauvin

Roman Officers and English Gentlemen

CBA update

favourite finds

If it shines, it is gold. David Miles on an early Christian gold pendant

 

ISSN 1357-4442

Editor Simon Denison

Issue 59 June 2001

contents

news

All the latest archaeology news from around the country

features

The edible dead

Cannibalism as a universal practice, by Tim Taylor

The glory that was York

Cosmopolitan York in the 8th century, by Dominic Tweddle

Town of tin

A 20th century town that has now disappeared, by Bill Bevan

Great sites

Balladoole, by Mark Redknap

letters

Views and responses

issues

George Lambrick on the varied impacts of foot and mouth

Peter Ellis

Our regular columnist

books

All the latest books on archaeology in Britain reviewed

CBA update

Campaigns and reports from the CBA

favourite finds

If it shines, it is gold. David Miles on an early Christian gold pendant

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