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ISSN 1357-4442 Editor: Simon Denison

Issue no 53, June 2000

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Contents

News

Burial in water `normal rite' for 1,000 years: skeletons, animal skulls and other Iron Age offerings found in Thames
Dogs on the menu in medieval Northern Ireland
Oldest tidal mill found in Ulster
Neolithic hunting platform preserved in Scottish peat
Medieval `murder weapon' hidden in Suffolk ditch
Regular villas for Roman colonists in Kent: evidence suggests massive displacement of native farmers after Roman conquest
In Brief

Features

Great sites: Llyn Cerrig Bach
Mike Parker Pearson recalls the site that revealed the religious significance of water in later prehistoric Britain

Frobisher the Fraud
New evidence from Baffin Island suggests the explorer Martin Frobisher may have tried to defraud Queen Elizabeth I herself, writes Réginald Auger

Buried with the friars
Exceptionally well-preserved finds from an Augustinian friary in Hull have shed light on life and death in the Middle Ages. David Evans reports

Letters

for and against moving monuments - and Seahenge

Issues

Keep on thinking free: David Irvine gave honest revisionism a bad name, writes Simon Denison

Peter Ellis

Books

Origins of society by Paul Pettitt
Crusaders abroad by Kay Prag
Warfare forever by Richgard Osgood
Changing strongholds by John Kenyon
Conservation vs access by Laurence Keen
Not for the timid by Simon Denison

CBA update

Favourite finds

Where Samson pruned roses: Paul Stamper enjoyed finding a 17th century garden in a thick forest


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