Antiquity 77 (296)

On 23rd April 2003 engravings were discovered at Creswell Crags, Derbyshire.

The authors consider the impact trees would have had on the visibility of the landscape from and around Neolithic monuments. It is suggested that woodland may have been an integral part of the way monuments were experienced.

Buildings from Salisbury town and Cathedral Close are subject to an analytical technique in which spaces inside a structure are categorised by their relative ease of access and interpreted in terms of privelege and privacy.

An illustration of how Stukeley may have `pre-echoed' current interest in prehistoric monuments' relation to their respective landscapes.

A single, unaccompanied burial, located at cross-roads at Broad Town, North Wiltshire has recently been radiocarbon dated. Its excavation forms part of the ongoing investigation, by the University of Bath in Swindon, into settlement patterns in Kingsbridge Hundred, North Wiltshire. The results open up the possibilities of a very early date both for the practice of cross-roads burial and also of burying criminals at dominant locations on boundaries. The individual was buried in the topsoil as the grave was only c. 25 cm deep. Alignment of the burial was head to the south-west. The body lay supine, legs straight, arms flexed with hands on pelvis. Around 40% of the burial had been lost to erosion including, unfortunately, the skull and left arm. The smaller bones were also in a poor condition, primarily due to the shallowness of the grave. Only residual Late Iron Age and Roman pottery was recovered from the grave matrix (Seager Smith pers comm). A radiocarbon determination was obtained from the right femur of 1430+-45 BP (OxA 11173) which calibrates to possible calendar date ranges of 595-665 cal AD at 68% probability or 540-680 cal AD at 95.4% probability.