Issue 71

July 2003

Contents

news

New Neolithic settlements found on Orkney

Medieval double watermill found at Stafford

Iron Age hilltop ‘town’ found at Margate

Prehistoric landscape of settlement, ritual and magic

Coins reveal how Hannibal bankrupted the Romans

In Brief

features

Underground warfare
Ken Wiggins on the archaeology of mines and countermines

Great sites
David Gaimster on the importance of Henry VIII's flagship

Islands in the Neolithic
Gordon Noble on how farming came to Britain via its islands

Tale of the limpet
Caroline Wickham-Jones on a shellfish with a long history

letters

Roman burials, medieval fields, and Saxons in Scotland

issues

George Lambrick on the looting of antiquities in Iraq

Peter Ellis

On archaeology and today's mentality of hurry, hurry, hurry

books

A History of Childhood by Colin Heywood

Conserving landscapes reviewed by Christopher Catling

Roman Lincoln by MJ Jones

Farming in the First Millennium AD by Peter Fowler

CBA update

favourite finds

Paul Pettitt on an antiquarian book found in a junkshop

ISSN 1357-4442

Editor Simon Denison

Issue 71 July 2003

contents

news

All the latest archaeology news from around the country.

features

Warfare underground

Few aspects of ancient warfare are more conducive to archaeological research than siege mining and countermining. Ken Wiggins reports

Great sites: The Mary Rose

Since it was raised in 1982, the Mary Rose has proved to be the most important time capsule we have for the Tudor period. David Gaimster recalls the rescue of Henry VIII’s famous warship, and the discovery and conservation of its remarkable collection of 19,000 well-preserved artefacts

Islands and the Neolithic farming tradition

Gordon Noble considers the role of islands in bringing about the transition from hunter-gathering to farming in the early Neolithic

The tale of the limpet

Limpets, often found in Mesolithic rubbish dumps, are normally derided as ‘famine food’, only edible in emergencies. But there’s far more to them than that, writes Caroline Wickham-Jones

letters

Views and responses.

issues

Archaeologists tried to warn the Government about looting in Iraq, but they were ignored, writes George Lambrick. Ministers are listening now, but will they do enough this time?

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

From a junk shop to a suburban garden. Favourite finds can come from the most surprising places, as Paul Pettitt discovered

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