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(Vol.XXVII, No.1) | April 2016
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News Rare Romano-British fresco found in London; Bronze Age village found on Sanday; Men, women, and children buried at Stonehenge; Rolling out the past at Must Farm; Gifts for the dead at Lopness?; Leicester’s roads to Rome revealed; Investigating Newhaven’s man of mystery; New community fund for radiocarbon dating
Bronze Age village found on Sanday
Bronze Age village found on Sanday
Bronze Age village found on Sanday
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Finding ‘Duropolis’ Finding ‘Duropolis’ Finding ‘Duropolis’ Finding ‘Duropolis’ Finding ‘Duropolis’ Finding ‘Duropolis’
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Inside a new type of prehistoric settlement
Saving Ditherington Mill
The true story of the ‘father of the skyscraper’
New galleries open at the Imperial War Museum
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The mystery in the marsh Discovering a lost Anglo-Saxon island
Sharing stories 60 years on
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ON THE COVER Excavations underway at Winterborne Kingston, Dorset, in 2015.
FEATURES FINDING DUROPOLIS
A new kind of Iron Age settlement Large Iron Age settlements are traditionally associated with mighty defensive earthworks – so what does the discovery of a substantial but apparently unenclosed site in Dorset mean for our understanding of the period?
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THE MILL’S TALE
Ditherington and the Industrial Revolution Work to restore a pioneering industrial complex has revealed a story of engineering ingenuity that made possible the birth of the skyscraper.
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THE MYSTERY IN THE MARSH
Exploring an Anglo-Saxon island at Little Carlton An impressive array of Middle Saxon metalwork held the key to identifying one of the most important high-status settlements found in Lincolnshire. We explore the archaeological detectivework that brought this community to light once more.
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FAST TRACK TO THE PAST
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Celebrating Crossrail’s archaeology A major infrastructure project created one of the largest archaeological programmes ever undertaken, revealing a wealth of secrets hidden beneath modern London.
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REGULARS
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Reviews
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The Fields of Britannia;Archaeology of Salt;Understanding Roman Frontiers; Death in the Close
Museum review 46 We meet the ancestors at the Natural History Museum’s new Human Evolution gallery
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Chris Catling’s irreverent take on heritage issues
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Odd Socs
The Friends of Williamson’s Tunnels
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