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March/April 2021 Number 177

Published February 5 2021

Archaeology British

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From the director

News

The world in antiquity

The Dig

Hillforts on the Tay

Dating pottery

Principal Place

Mount Pleasant

Eddisbury hillfort

Requiem

My archaeology

Sharp focus

Greg Bailey / Phase 2

Books

Casefiles

Archaeology active

Archaeology 8-25

Disrupting the past

Spoilheap

Reflecting on 2020, from an online Festival to old baths

Detecting crime, and concealing statues

An Oman tomb, a Costa Rican chacmool and an Alaskan fort

Behind the scenes of a movie that understands archaeology

Excavations reveal competitive hierarchies and fine crafts

Explaining the new science of radiocarbon-dating sherds

Rare Neolithic pottery finds in London aged by radiocarbon

New dating at major henge rewrites its history

Iron Age gate-mechanisms unlock hillfort secrets

Our 16th annual feature celebrating lovers of antiquity

Antony Gormley, sculptor with a taste for archaeology

Taddiport Leper Fields, Devon

Egyptian Mummies with Bettany Hughes

Staffordshire Hoard, Stonehenge and the Ness of Brodgar

An outhouse on New Street, Penryn, Cornwall

Winners in the Festival photography competition

Shaping archaeology to benefit youth voice

Archaeology is about the living, not just the dead

Unleashing the mayhem of antiquity

FIRST SIGHT When British Archaeology featured the Galloway Hoard (Jan/Feb 2015/140) it was covered in dirt, and a vessel full of precious Viking-age objects had not been unpacked. Now fully conserved, its full splendour has been revealed. The Arts & Humanities Research Council has funded a new three-year research project, and as soon as conditions permit it will be exhibited at the NMS in Edinburgh. Photography National Museums Scotland

That speaks, dunnit, the past.

Basil Brown, played by Ralph Fiennes, in The Dig (Netflix 2021)

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