July August 2012 Number 125

Published June 8

Archaeology British

THE VOICE OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN BRITAIN AND BEYOND

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News

Letters

My archaeology

Greg Bailey / Phase 2

The 2012 Olympic Park

Roger Grosjean

Swordle Bay

Ochre plaques

Prior’s Hall

The power of climate

Mick’s travels

Books

Briefing

CBA correspondent

Casefiles

Spoilheap

Ancient ear studs, and building starts at Stonehenge

Why do archaeologists protest about windfarms?

Charles Thomas surrenders to the pull of Cornwall

Pot-spotters down the pub

Before the Games, the digs

The ex-mi5 spy who revolutionised Corsican archaeology

The unexpected discovery of a Viking ship burial

A scheme to commemorate the people history missed

An Anglo-Saxon puzzle that began in the shed

Why so many human species – and where did the rest go?

Monasteries and big houses in Charnwood Forest

Tessa Verney Wheeler

Local group listings, fieldwork, conferences and exhibitions

Celebrating all that’s best in British archaeology

Jon Wright considers Lubetkin’s Dudley Zoo

Big stories, big bucks and prehistoric art on Skye

FIRST SIGHT This tablet, carved from silver fir and recessed for a layer of black wax, was excavated at 1 Poultry in the City of London. Texts were written in the wax with iron styli – which have a flat “eraser” opposite the nib – in this case scratching the underlying wood. It is a deed for a slave-girl from France called Fortunata, sold “in good health” for 600 denarii around AD75–125. Photos Andy Chopping, MOLA (actual size)

Scots are the descendants of lost tribes who fought the Romans, tribesmen from the Sahara and Napoleon Bonaparte. Scotsman April 17 Scottish DNA is much the same as English DNA. Telegraph April 18

Historical DNA studies can be so confusing

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