British Archaeology, no 7, September 1995


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Contents


News

1.8 million-year-old human presence in Spain
York church dig becomes a `tale of woe'
Roman conquest rethought in north west
In Brief

Features

Among the crumbling Roman ruins
How did the Saxons deal with Roman buildings? Peter Carrington explains

Turning a fortress into a cathedral
Ian Wood looks at new evidence for the post-Roman period from York

Unmasking Alfred's false biographer
A major source for Anglo-Saxon history is a forgery, claims Alfred Smyth

Letters

covering landscape change, Roman genocide, rubbish floors and PPG16 research

Comment

Richard Morris on what is this thing called archaeology?

Books

Richard Larn on sailing the dark medieval waters
Olwyn Owen on history's turn to be the footnote
George Hart on putting the cor-blimey into wonder
John Schofield on patient recording for its own sake

Interview

Simon Denison talks to Peter Addyman


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