CONTENTS

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(Vol.X X X V I , No.1) ❙ April 2025

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20 FROM BAYEUX TO BOSHAM

Tracing ‘lordly sites’ in medieval England A two-year project has shed new light on power centres associated with the Anglo-Saxon aristocracy that was swept away by the Norman Conquest – including an important site linked to Harold Godwinson and his family.

26 A MONUMENTAL UNDERTAKING

Unravelling the long and complex story of Crickley Hill’s Long Mound Best-known for its Iron Age hillfort, Crickley Hill in Gloucestershire is also home to an enigmatic array of Neolithic monuments. What has newly published analysis revealed about this earlier phase?

34 DISTILLING A CLANDESTINE CRAFT

Exploring the archaeology and history of illicit whisky-making Fieldwork in the Scottish Highlands has highlighted archaeological evidence of an underground industry.

40 TURNING ON THE WATERWORKS

Navigating the industrial architecture of the Victorian sanitary crisis

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We explore the innovative transformation of water- and sewagerelated architecture amid rising mortality rates caused by water pollution in the mid-19th century.

48 MESOLITHIC MICROWEAR

Exploring spatial organisation within the Star Carr structures Microscopic analysis of flint tools found in and around Britain’s earliest post-built structures open up new ways to understand how these spaces may have been used and organised by the Mesolithic communities that built them.

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