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ISSN 1357-4442 Editor: Simon Denison

Issue no 54, August 2000

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Contents

News

Archaeologists divided on Stonehenge solstice: is it right to share Stonehenge with all? Or to keep the 'prancing mystics' out?
Sixth century cemetery points to origins of Sutton Hoo
Bronze Age dagger found with jet buttons in Fife
More evidence of Roman PoW camp on Hadrian's Wall
Saxon royal cemetery discovered in Southampton: graves may have belonged to dynasty that founded one of England's first towns
In Brief

Features

London at the edge of the world
Recent excavations show that early London was a rough male town where conditions were terrible but there was a lot of money to be made, writes Peter Rowsome

Great sites: Little Woodbury
Everyone thought that prehistoric Britons lived in holes in the ground rather than houses, until a German refugee began to dig a site in a Wiltshire field

Landscape of war
Historians are only now coming to appreciate the Second World War's vast impact on Britain's landscape. William Foot reports.

Letters

covering old and new, pagan views and St Patrick

Issues

Loot no more: every day sites are wrecked to supply the art market, writes Simon Denison

Peter Ellis

Books

Stone Age wonder by Tim Taylor
Romans at war by Jon Coulston
More to life than telly by Simon Denison
Bugs, plants and pollen by Allan Hall
Neolithic Ireland by Jim Mallory
Late Roman culture by Keith Matthews

CBA update

Favourite finds

It's domed but it's not pottery: Gill Hey recalls the first time she found a human body


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