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(Vol XXIII, No.7) | October 2012
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
MICK ASTONMICK ASTON
MICK ASTON
From his first dig to Time Team and beyond
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UP FRONT
Letters
Your comments, complaints, and compliments
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News
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Harnessing expertise; The tines they are a-changing; Cherrymount crannog: crisis averted; Spicing up Silchester; Altaring perceptions of Maryport; Vindolanda’s generation game; Named and shamed: Kent’s unusual suspects
Cherrymount crannog: crisis averted; Spicing up Silchester; Altaring
FEATURES MICK ASTON
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An archaeological journey CA talks teaching, test pits, and Time Team with a household name of the heritage world.
HOLLOWED GROUND
The archaeology of Bath’s stone mines Going underground: navigating the labyrinthine quarries that built Bath.
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VESPASIAN’S CAMP
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Cradle of Stonehenge? Does the discovery of thousands of Mesolithic flint tools on Salisbury Plain provide the key to the later location of Stonehenge?
UNCOVERING WINCHESTER
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A city in the making Oram’s Arbour, Alfred the Great, and air raid shelters: exploring the 2,600-year evolution of England’s first capital.
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Cradle of Stonehenge
Excavating Salisbury Plain’s Mesolithic missing link
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Bath’s Georgian labyrinth Saving the secrets of a stone mine
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ON THE COVER Mick Aston in 1975.
REGULARS
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Context
Exploring Maeshowe in Orkney
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Reviews
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Britain Begins;Discovering Abergavenny; Castles and Fortifications of Wales; Hadrian’s Wall and the End of Empire
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Chris Catling’s irreverent take on heritage issues
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Last word
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Andrew Selkirk asks whether the days of excavation without a grant are behind us, and casts an eye over official guidance
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The International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Art
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