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Issue 64
April 2002
Contents
news
Anglo-Saxon 'planned town' revealed this month in Whitby
Mesolithic camp found at bottom of the Solent
Sacred pool ringed by toem poles in Scotland's ritual glen
Prehistoric bunker guards its secrets to the very end
Finds from Chester: an elephant's leg to Jupiter's face
In Brief
features
Guns of the Armada
Colin Martin on the results of excavating Armada wrecks
Invisible Vikings
Dawn Hadley on how the Danish settlers became English
Great sites
Peter Rowley-Conwy on the Neolithic house at Balbridie
letters
On Roulston Scar, small finds, grave goods and boiled bones
issues
George Lambrick on new developments at Stonehenge
Peter Ellis
Regular column
books
Dangerous Energy by Wayne Cocroft
Bloody Marsh by Peter Warner
Vernacular Buildings in a Changing World edited by Sarah Pearson & Bob Meeson
Dying for the Gods by Miranda Aldhouse Green
The Vikings in Wales by Mark Redknap
favourite finds
Gwilym Hughes on a piece of Ming china found in Africa
ISSN 1357-4442
Editor Simon Denison
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Issue 64 April 2002
contents
All the latest archaeology news from around the country.
features
Archaeology shows the 1588 Armada failed partly because Spanish guns were no good, writes Colin Martin
How much did the impact of Viking customs change English ways of life? Less than you might think, explains Dawn Hadley
For years, very few Neolithic settlements were known in Britain. Perhaps the ‘first farmers’ were a myth? Then a Neolithic ‘house’ full of grain was found near Aberdeen. Peter Rowley-Conwy reports
Views and responses.
Plans for improving Stonehenge are still far from complete, warns George Lambrick
Our regular columnist.
All the latest books on archaeology in Britain reviewed.
Campaigns and reports from the CBA.
Ming pottery in an African sun.
Gwilym Hughes recalls finding a broken Chinese platter at Great Zimbabwe
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