Antiquity 75 (290)

Discusses various topical issues in contemporary archaeology. Includes separately authored reports on:

Considers previous interpretations of knobbed spearbutts, and revises the traditional date and provenance of the artefacts. Suggests that they were used throughout the British Isles, up to as late as the fourth century AD.

A new series of radiocarbon measurements on three sewn-plank boats from North Ferriby, Yorkshire, suggests that they date to the Early Bronze Age.

Suggests that the Nene Valley, Northamptonshire, was a location of potentially large-scale wine production during the second--third centuries AD. It is argued that the apparent lack of Roman viticultural tools and wine presses in Britain is not reliable evidence for the absence of viticulture at that time.