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CONTENTS issue 285
(Vol.XXIV, No.9) | December 2013
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News
Edwina’s box at Aldeburgh; Flood of finds from Cardiff Castle leat;
Opening Edwina’s box at Aldeburgh; Flood of finds from Cardiff Castle leat; Found: Richard III’s lost chapel; Bronze Age boat-builders in Monmouth?; Tracing Tredegar House; Maryport’s Roman retail; New light on the New Forest; Revisiting Rathcroghan in Monmouth?;
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REDATING EARLY ENGLAND
The Church’s crusade against grave goods against grave goods
Death of Paganism?
Rutland’s Roman shrine
Sacrifice and squalor inside a cult centre
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Neolithic halls on Dorstone Hill Stunning remains from the dawn of farming
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ON THE COVER New dating suggests that the church took more interest in eradicating furnished burial than previously suspected.
CREDIT: John Hines
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REDATING EARLY ENGLAND
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Explaining the end of Anglo-Saxon pre-Christian funerary traditions A major survey of almost 600 Early Medieval graves has revealed that furnished burial stopped earlier, and more abruptly, than previously thought.
ENSHRINED BY CONSERVATION
A Romano-British shrine in Rutland Water Archaeological work ahead of the creation of a new wildlife habitat has uncovered a well-preserved circular structure. What can this enigmatic building tell us about Roman cult practice?
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DORSTONE HILL
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How halls for the living became homes for the dead in Herefordshire Initially interpreted as a Neolithic causeway enclosure, these Herefordshire earthworks have revealed something much more unusual: two 6,000-year-old halls, transformed into tombs.
ALAN SORRELL
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‘An artist, and not an archaeologist’ Drawing together the life and work of a pioneer in archaeological reconstruction illustrations.
REGULARS
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Opinion
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The artist and the Wall: an exploration of Alan Sorrell’s work at Hadrian’s Wall, by his daughter Julia
Reviews
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Dartmoor’s Alluring Uplands; Northumberland Churches;Ancestral Journeys;All that Matters:the Romans
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Sherds
Chris Catling’s irreverent take on heritage issues
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Last Word
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Andrew Selkirk reminisces about a star find in the Medieval landscape – and his own brush with television stardom
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Odd Socs
The Naval Dockyards Society
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