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Surveys by three research teams have combined to shed light on the significance attached by Iron Age builders to Bronze Age features in the landscape, as well as on the increasing rate of attrition on the monument over the last fifty years.

on the excavation of a site in Ireland which is helping the interpretation of similar but less well-preserved sites in England

on recent results which have helped to track experimentation during the late-seventeenth century related to the invention of lead glass

On a recent re-analysis of the surviving human skeletal material from the Mesolithic burial site of Aveline's Hole, Somerset, including radiocarbon dating of eighteen samples, indicating that the site arose from a single continuous phase of activity rather than intermittent use over a longer period.

On a project design to investigate badger damage to Bronze Age round barrows, which produced evidence for site use over four millennia, including Neolithic settlement, Bronze Age burial ritual and Anglo-Saxon graves.

Article on the impact of a major fire on the archaeology of an area of the North York Moors, including the discovery of previously unknown features including examples of rock art, and on efforts to record and conserve this and previously recorded evidence.

On a project to study the history and development of the community and its built environment in the suburban London district of South Acton over the course of the twentieth century.

on recording of post-medieval alum production sites in the North York Moors area

on a fragment of carved stone found in Warcop, Cumbria, apparently depicting part of a fanged beast in an early medieval, possibly Viking, style

Update on a project aimed at finding out more about medieval wool production, including discussion of some of the results obtained through a pilot sample of skeletal material and the analysis of `live' data, the main aims of which were to gain an idea of variation in the timing of tooth eruption and bone development, as well as in biometry between entire males, castrate, unbred and bred females and between animals raised on different diets, and to see if data from live animals echoed that in zooarchaeological assemblages.