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ISSN 1357-4442 Editor: Simon Denison

Issue no 55, October 2000

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Contents

News

Mosaics retrieved from flooded Roman city: British team rescues Roman Zeugma from rising waters of Turkish dam
Post-medieval pottery collection found in Ely
Archbishop of Canterbury's palace discovered in Kent
From a stolen seal to a buried Brahma: members of the public reported 24,000 new discoveries last year
Planning inquiry boost for historic landscape
In Brief

Features

Hunters in the cold
A 10,000-year-old campsite in southern Britain provides remarkable new evidence for hunter-gatherer life after the Ice Age. John Lewis reports.

Great sites: Skara Brae
Europe's best preserved Neolithic village was dug in the 1920s and the 1970s, but it continues to give up new secrets, writes Alexandra Shepherd

Decline and fall
Roman culture was fading in Britain from the early 200s. It had all but gone a century later. Neil Faulkner looks at the evidence.

Letters

covering Roman PoWs, World War II remains, roundhouses and rail widths

Issues

It's up to you: the lottery wants to spend more on archaeology, writes Simon Denison

Peter Ellis

Books

Cerne giant by Chris Gerrard
Dark Age war by Richard Underwood
Flints and rivers by Nick Ashton
Tin mining by Adam Sharpe
Severn wetlands by Robert Van de Noort
Rock art by Henry Owen-John

CBA update

Favourite finds

Roman haymaker: George Lambrick recalls a scrap of metal that turned into a Roman scythe


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