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UPFRONT 3 EDITOR’S LETTER 6 LETTERS

Your comments, complaints, and compliments 8 NEWS

Little Carlton’s inhabitants revealed; Lincolnshire’s diverse Anglo-Saxon burial rites identified; Setting the scene at Shakespeare’s Curtain Theatre; Safeguarding Star Carr; Great Fire manuscript on display; Irish adze illuminates Mesolithic burial rites; Neolithic Orcadians ate voles; Finds tray 14 COMMENT

Joe Flatman excavates the CA archive 16 CONTEXT

Restoring Sir John Soane’s Museum

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CULTURE 52 REVIEWS

St Paul’s Cathedral; Small Finds and Ancient Social Practices in the Northwest Provinces of the Roman Empire; Hadrian’s Wall; Warriors, Warlords and Saints; Castle Builders; The Archaeology of Darkness; Exploring Avebury; Decoding Neolithic Atlantic and Mediterranean Island Ritual

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South Africa: the art of a nation at the British Museum 58 CALENDAR

Our selection from the month’s exhibitions and events 60 CONFERENCE

The latest details about Current Archaeology Live! 2017, including the nominees for our awards 64 SHERDS

Chris Catling’s irreverent take on heritage issues 66 ODD SOCS

The Caithness Broch Project

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Over 80 AngloSaxon coffins and plank-lined graves have been found in a Norfolk cemetery.

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Opening a Dartmoor cist

The surprising contents of a Bronze Age grave

Discovering a unique set of Anglo-Saxon burials

The messy reality of Roman Mucking PLUSPLUS

Archaeology of ancient mice

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Tracing a Highland charge at Killiecrankie

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