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Brit Archaeol News 17
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Brit Archaeol News 17
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British Archaeological News
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17
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1994
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Date Of Issue From: 1994
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20 Jan 2002
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Peaceful Vikings
Anna Ritchie
Excavations on Orkney over recent years have tended to refute the idea that the Vikings were murderous plunderers. A picture of social integration is emerging from settlement sites, such as a farmstead at the Point of Buckquoy, which have produced both Pictish and Viking artefacts. This view is corroborated by folklore and linguistic evidence.
Kentish cemetery reveals glittering past
Reports on discoveries made during excavation of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Buckland, near Dover. Burials dating from the mid-fifth century to the early-seventh century produced a wealth of grave goods indicating close trading links with northern France and the Rhineland. The assemblage included a number of Roman artefacts. The contents of one of the many rich graves belonging to women are described. Pathological evidence indicates one individual had died from a sword cut and another from a tumour.
Disease? What disease?
Discusses disagreement amongst medical experts over the likelihood that diseases such as smallpox pose a threat to the health of those excavating human remains.
Grade I medieval hermitage `falling apart'
Discusses the predicament of the subterranean hermitage in Pontefract, which is in need of urgent repair.
Lay down the spear, pick up the hoe
Reports that pollen and DNA analysis is providing new evidence of how agriculture spread into Europe. These studies support socio-linguistic arguments (see 95/367) that farming was taken up by indigenous groups rather than imported by waves of migrants.
Squelching through an ancient landscape
An interview with Debbie Griffiths, Dartmoor National Park archaeologist.
George Boon
William H Manning
Remembers `one of the foremost Romanists of his generation'.
Examine the dead gently
Richard Morris
Raises questions about the ethics of exhuming human remains, citing examples of recent projects where religious codes have affected archaeological work.
Reconstructing the past
Considers how far the apparent vogue for physical reconstruction of archaeological remains is justified. New techniques, such as that used to model faces of Jorvik Viking figures, seem to add greater authority. However, it is cautioned that previous generations' attempts at reconstruction now look dated, although they may have been regarded as good in their day.
End neglect of listed buildings
Bob Kindred
Discusses, in the light of recent studies, local authorities' responsibility to ensure that listed buildings are properly maintained.
Floral tributes go back to the Bronze Age
Scottish burial cairns -- Ashgrove (Fife), North Mains (Loanleven), Sketewan and Beech Hill House (Perthshire), Sandfjod (Orkney), and West Water (Lothian) -- have produced pollen concentrations which may reflect the use of flowers (mostly meadowsweet or dropwort). It is also argued that associated dark stains are the result of a mat of flowers draped over or near the remains.
Romanised Britons `skimped on standards'
An extensive study of the composition of Roman wall plaster has revealed that only that from Fishbourne palace meets the standards set out by the various Roman writers. However, many other buildings were given highest quality polished and painted finishes.