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Issue 72

September 2003

Contents

news

Shrine full of votive offerings at Roman town

Neolithic village and fortified hill excavated in Ulster

Roman fort suggests conquest of West Wales was no walk-over after all

Essex causewayed enclosure 'survived for over 2,000 years'

Roman and medieval inscriptions found in Norfolk

In Brief

features

Hunting for cave art
Paul Bahn on the first Ice Age cave art found in Britain

Great Sites
Peter Topping on the Neolithic flint mines, Grimes Graves

Archaeology of industry
James Symonds debunks some Industrial Revolution myths

letters

Saxon Invasions, Welsh in rural dialects and Iron Age coins

issues

Simon Denison on British archaeology since the mid-1990's

Peter Ellis

On why British prehistory is much better than the Romans

books

The Archaeology ofMedieval London by Christopher Thomas

The Tower Menagerie by Daniel Hahn

The British Settlement of Brittany by Pierre-Roland Giot, Philippe Guigon & Bernard Merdrignac

Water Technology in the Middle Ages by Roberta J Magnusson

The Sandbach Crosses by Jane Hawkes

CBA update

favourite finds

Alan Saville on a flint-knapper burial in a long barrow

 

ISSN 1357-4442

Editor Simon Denison

Issue 72 September 2003

contents

news

All the latest archaeology news from around the country.

features

Art of the Hunters

Paul Bahn describes how the first Ice Age cave art in Britain was found earlier this year at Creswell Crags

Great sites: Grimes Graves

Peter Topping recalls early excavations at the Neolithic flint mines in Norfolk, which many archaeologists thought for years were Paleolithic

Beyond the Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution is one of the founding myths of Britain's imperial story. But archaeology can overturn some long-held assumptions. James Symonds reports

letters

Views and responses.

issues

In his final article, award-winning editor Simon Denison considers how archaeology in Britain has changed since British Archaeology magazine was launched in 1995

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

Entombed with the tools of his trade. Alan Saville recalls finding the skeleton of a flint-knapper in a barrow in the Cotswolds.

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