March April 2011 Number 117 Published February 11

Archaeology British

THE VOICE OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN BRITAIN AND BEYOND

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News

Spoilheap

Letters

10 big questions

Winchester

Jersey’s big cave

Digging for history

Dear Lord Chancellor

Moving the stones

Science

Requiem

Mick’s travels

On the web

Books

Briefing

My archaeology

Roman statue, Britain in archaeology and Greg Bailey

Are you an antiquary, or an archaeologist?

Photography, chimneys and a medieval inscription

What is the past all about?

Was St Mary Magdalen Hospital Britain’s first?

Matt Pope reflects on the extraordinary site at La Cotte

Adam Stanford photographs archaeologists at work

Archaeologists express concern at human remains rules

Andrew Young tests a megalithic theory with balls

Sebastian Payne holds some old window glass up to the light

Our sixth annual celebration of lovers of antiquity

Mick Aston visits the sites at the tip of Cornwall

Caroline Wickham-Jones wonders about ancient partying

Britain after Rome, Norwich Castle, Heathrow t5 and more

The CBA guide to places to dig, talk, listen, look and learn

Francis Pryor relives some moving moments

FIRST SIGHT The ghostly Roman cavalryman (8.5cm head to toe) can be seen only in this x-ray photo taken by Fleur Shearman, who is conserving the find with Marilyn Hockey at the British Museum. He graces a cheekpiece, one of six buried with one helmet at Hallaton, Leicestershire. The piece is iron, but the design is repoussé in silver sheet and both metals are very corroded and hidden in soil. The bearded man is on another piece

I am calling on the Egyptian army to head instantly to the Egyptian Museum. There is a fire right next to it in the party headquarters. As Egypt marches against its government in late January, film director Khaled Youssef appeals for help on the Al Arabiya television channel. There is damage in the museum holding Tutankhamun’s treasures, but it, the New Library of Alexandria and Luxor Museum are protected by a spontaneous alliance of citizens, police and military

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