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ISSN 1357-4442Editor: Simon Denison

Issue no 32, March 1998

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Contents

News

First historic landscapes register created in Wales
Archaeology crisis in Buckinghamshire
Clue to medieval Manchester's vigour
In Brief

Features

Barrows, cairns and a few imposters
In the second of our series on the historic landscape, Paul Ashbee decides what is, and what is not, a prehistoric barrow

Centuries of Roman survival in the West
Evidence of the late survival of Roman culture in western Britain extends far beyond the well known-remains at Wroxeter. Ken Dark reports.

Resisting the Reformation in secret
Many Catholic images, intended for destruction, were adapted or concealed by local people, writes Sarah Tarlow

Many ways of resisting iconoclasm by Simon Denison

Regions

Monumental homes of the Hebrides
Continuing our series on recent archaeology in the regions of Britain, Ian Armit discusses new research on the Iron Age of the Western Isles

Letters

covering simple lathes, medieval games and Celtic identity

Comment

The Government still getting it wrong
Ministers still don't understand about the historic environment, writes Richard Morris

Books

Chris Daniell on a London hospital and a model report
Chris Tabraham on Irish castles and a troubled history
Peter Rowley-Conwy on essays from prehistory's man of ideas
Mark Lawrence on an encyclopaedia of history from the sea

CBA update

featuring the peat campaign, education, battlefields, Defence of Britain and digital matters


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