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UPFRONT 3 EDITOR’S LETTER 6 LETTERS

Your comments, complaints, and compliments 8 NEWS

Unpicking Pictish Burghead; The Londinium diet; Moat of Newark Castle uncovered; CITiZAN triumphs; Searching Scillonian seas; Science notes; Revealing the remains of Rousay; Finds tray 14 NEWS FOCUS

The Harper Road woman: coming face to face with an inhabitant of Roman London 16 SPECIAL REPORT

New dig at Sutton Hoo: expanding the story of a royal burial ground 18 COMMENT

Joe Flatman excavates the CA archive 20 CONTEXT

Bailey on the border: Clifford Castle, Herefordshire

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The Art of the Roman Empire AD 100-450; The Outcast Dead: the effect of the New Poor Law on the health and diet of London’s post-medieval poor; Paths to the Past: encounters with Britain’s hidden landscapes; The Chambered Tombs of the Isle of Man: a study by Audrey Henshall 1969-1978; The Stonehenge Bluestones; Viking Nottinghamshire

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Our selection of exhibitions and events 58 MUSEUM

Reading Abbey revealed 62 PROFILE

Marguerite Wood and Margaret Simpson 64 SHERDS

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

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