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(Vol.XXV, No.8) | November 2014 UP FRONT
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News cache: hidden from Boudicca; Vindolanda’s Rome comforts; Tunnel vision at
Colchester cache: hidden from Boudicca; Vindolanda’s Rome comforts; Tunnel vision at Carrickfergus Castle; Archaeology in the pipeline at Kelham; Kintore’s long-lost longhouse
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Horrors of World War I
New galleries open at the Imperial War Museum
Temple of Mithras Sharing stories 60 years on
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ON THE COVER Team members logging survey data at Stonehenge.
CREDIT: LBI ArchPro, Geert Verhoeven
FEATURES
INGLEBOROUGH
Anglo-Saxons in the Dales Exploring the west Yorkshire Dales’ first conclusively dated Anglo-Saxon sites.
THE IRISH NEOLITHIC
A boom in ancient housing Seeking the elusive homes of our Neolithic forbears.
OBJECTS OF WAR
Exploring the Imperial War Museum How do the museum’s new galleries tell the story of World War I?
UNDERGROUND EXETER
Water for the City We plunge into Exeter’s Medieval aqueducts.
THE TEMPLE OF MITHRAS
Recollecting the excavation Sharing stories from a spectacular London dig, 60 years ago.
THE LACOCK CUP
From fine dining to divine ritual Why has this beautiful Medieval drinking vessel been acquired for the nation?
RICHARD III’S DNA
Tracing the lost king’s living relatives How modern relatives of Richard III helped identify his remains.
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SPECIAL REPORT 10 Stonehenge’s hidden landscape Geophysical survey on an unprecedented scale has revealed hundreds of previously unknown features in the landscape around the famous stones.
Reviews
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Legions in Crisis; On Silbury Hill; In Search of Alfred the Great
Sherds
Chris Catling’s irreverent take on heritage issues
Odd Socs
Wemyss Caves Society
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