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Brit Archaeol News 18
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Brit Archaeol News 18
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British Archaeological News
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18
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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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Industry still out in the cold
6 - 7
An overview of the state of Britain's industrial monuments, reporting efforts to record and preserve them. Programmes of research initiated by various national and local bodies are described and the establishment of the AIA Index Record of Industrial Sites is reported. Examples of recent cases of demolition of some noteworthy structures are noted. The relative infancy of industrial archaeology is seen as a key problem.
When England turned English
Alex Woolf
Highlights the inadequacies of traditional alternative `Conquest' and `Acculturation' models for explaining the transition between Roman Britain and Anglo-Saxon England. A new model is put forward, which supposes that the petty feuding of native British clans enabled the English to gradually usurp them. The model is based on accounts of medieval and later Irish history and it is argued that there was more similarity between early English and Irish societies than previously believed.
Government says peat-cutting should go on
Comments on new DoE draft mineral planning guidance on peat provision in England, which has been released for consultation. Although it recommends preservation of pristine peat bogs and upgrading of existing planning permissions to comply with PPG 16, damaged bogs may still be exploited.
Taking archaeology into a new era
Richard Morris
Marks the end of four years since the release of PPG 16 by considering the effect it has had. Whilst there have been undoubted benefits, there are also weaknesses, and these are addressed in five proposed improvements. It is recommended that there should be more coordination of evaluation work, a re-involvement of the voluntary sector, the establishment of flagship research projects, and a greater commitment to public education.
Shedding the railway buff image
An interview with Marilyn Palmer, industrial archaeologist.
Richard Atkinson
Paul Ashbee
Remembers the prehistorian, academic, and former Assistant Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum.
Europe's oldest plough found in ditch
Reports on the discovery of a Neolithic wooden ard, preserved in the waterlogged ditch of a henge at Pict's Knowe, near Dumfries, Scotland. Other wooden objects, possibly structural or ritual in function, are also described. Although scheduled the site is under threat of desiccation and erosion by animals.
At the end of the Iceman's road
Excavation of a Copper Age burial chamber in Northern Italy has revealed artefacts similar to those found with the mummified corpse found in 1991. The site is providing evidence of burial rituals and the extent of trade/exchange links that existed.
Iron Age origin suspected for Roman town
Reports on the latest results of excavations at Heybridge, Essex. Extensive deposits of Iron Age pottery, dating from c 50BC, and gullies possibly of hut circles indicate a thriving pre-Roman settlement. Post-excavation work will analyse the extent to which truly urban activities were carried out in each period. Some of the more important Roman finds are noted.
Stomach bug found in Lindow Man's gut
DNA analysis of fecal remains from the bog body has identified the ubiquitous bacterium Escheria coli. This is reportedly the oldest bacterial DNA yet isolated.