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Current Archaeol 14 (7)
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Current Archaeol 14 (7)
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Current Archaeology
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14 (7)
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Journal
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Year of Publication:
1999
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Date Of Issue From: 1999
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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20 Jan 2002
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RAF Lakenheath Saxon cemetery
Jo Careth
Sue Anderson
244 - 250
Excavations in Suffolk have uncovered 261 inhumations, including one of a man -- described as a `warrior' -- with his horse. This burial lay under a mound surrounded with a ditch. Grave goods included a sword and horse furniture. The other burials and a small number of cremations are also considered in detail.
South Cadbury: Milsoms Corner
Richard Tabor
251 - 255
A late Bronze Age shield has recently been discovered just outside Cadbury Castle in Somerset. Recent research into the landscape around the early medieval hillfort has revealed a series of prehistoric features and finds.
Swindon: Blunsdon Ridge
Bryn Walters
256 - 258
A geophysical survey and trial excavation have revealed what might be a Roman sanctuary or shrine of some type. A nearby quarry and possible bath house have also been identified.
St Aidan's: boats in a coal mine
John Buglass
259 - 264
A range of structures and eight boats have been found in the River Aire, near Castleford. The boats are thought to be river craft used to carry coal to Hull. One of the craft has yielded an extraordinary amount of material in addition to her cargo of coal.
John Musty's Science Diary
John Musty
265 - 267
Genetically engineered food and the domestication of cereal plants; high precision X-ray fluorescence and the provenance of Roman pottery; fogous and microgravity; the move of the AML to Portsmouth; the processes by which the Ice Man's body was preserved; the opening and shutting of the Bering Strait; the use of sonar to discovered submerged sites, including boats and fish traps; medieval sea mammals; the physics and chemistry of ceramics.
Diary
273 - 275
The launch of a prize co-sponsored by the Royal Archaeological Institute and Current archaeology for the best essay by an extra-mural student; the decline in volunteer participation in excavations; a conference marking the anniversary of Dorothy Garrod's election to Cambridge's Disney professorship; the appointment of Suzanna Taverne as managing director of the British Museum.
Whitby Abbey
276 - 277
Brief descriptions of the remains, and plans for the future, of Whitby Abbey.
Aves Ditch: an Iron Age tribal boundary?
Eberhard Sauer
A 4 km length of ditch has been dated by archaeomagnetic study to the fifth century BC, this is thought to mark a boundary of the Catuvellauni. A headless male skeleton was also found, during excavations that will continue this summer.