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44 Navan Fort The background to the new Visitor Centre, and a new interpretation of the excavations
50 Diary
Amateurs and Rescue Archaeology
(Dover, Dunstable, Beddington, Hendon, Devon, and Compton Bassett), Salisbury Plain Training
Area, A Hoax, and Smalltalk
53 The Navan Landscape Excavations at the King's Stables and
Haughey's Fort.
56 Belfast
Belfast's first Industrial Revolution
58 Books
Wagon Chariot and Carriage, Late Stone Age Hunters, The Roman Cavalry, Iron Age Societies, Shrines and Sacrifice, The
Illyrians, Joseph Robinson, Colchester Excavations, and D-Day to Arnhem.
60 Ballygalley Rich neolithic site
Contents
63 The River Blackwater Dredgings reveal a House-shrine, a Viking metalworker's hoard and a
12th century decorated bowl
65 Stonehenge The problems of roads and the visitor centre.
68 The Belfast Palaeoecology Centre Using Tephra to date the past: the work of the Belfast Palaeoecology
Centre
70 Science Diary The SBA newsletter; Ancient biomolecules; Ancient starch; Ancient silk; The earliest copper; The first Americans, Vesuvius and Scotland; The
Radiocarbon calibration programme;
Dwarf mammoths and eternity
75 National Archaeology Day
A list of participants
76 Coleorton
A medieval coal mine brought to light
78 Letters
The Bluestones of Stonehenge, The Least Picturesque Site (Bakers Hole), Corn Du, Romano-British Coal, A View from the
Trenches, Children, Treasure Hunting for Charity, and Fate.
Front Cover The axis of the world ? An aerial view of the excavations at Navan. This clearly shows the grooves revealed in the top of the mound. Is this a dedication to the Celtic wheel God.
Photo courtesy of Historic Monuments &
Buildings, Northern Ireland.
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On Blagan Hill The excavation of an important late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age midden site is interrupted by the discovery of a late Roman hoard.