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ISSN 1357-4442Editor: Simon Denison

Issue no 37, September 1998

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Contents

News

Remains of early modern industry found in Reading
New Stonehenge proposals this month
Medieval water system in East London
In Brief

Features

Farm buildings and perpetual change
Many farmsteads were adapted as technology advanced in the 18th-19th centuries, writes Paul Barnwell

Togidubnus and the Roman liberation
The historian Tacitus invented the `conquest' of Britain, claims Martin Henig

The lost defensive ditches of wartime
Thousands of miles of wartime ditches have been filled in and forgotten, writes William Foot

Regions

From Buttermere to the bobbin factory
The Lake District was until recently an industrial area. Bob Bewley reports.

Letters

covering Patricks's grave, Viking influence, Temple Pyx date, a correction and saving monuments

Comment

Riding down the road to regional chaos
The Government's new culture proposals overlook the issue of conservation, writes Richard Morris

Books

John Mitchell on half a million years in a short book
Peter Carrington on The Rose dressed up like a good read
Timothy Taylor on the origins of war from outdated sources
John Newman on Sutton Hoo from prehistory onwards

Essay

Dating a cottage and saving a windmill
In the second of two articles, Simon Denison reports on the achievements of voluntary archaeology.


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