March April 2012 Number 123

Published February 10

Archaeology British

THE VOICE OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN BRITAIN AND BEYOND

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News

Letters

My archaeology

Greg Bailey / Phase 2

The folk on the fens

At the Three Tuns

Science

St Helena

Ham Hill

Stonehenge

Requiem

Mick’s travels

Books

Briefing

CBA correspondent

Spoilheap

A row of stones in Wales, and trouble at Time Team

How television benefits archaeology

Mick Aston reflects on a life in archaeology (and TV)

Climbing Great Buildings scaled new heights

The digs that are finding things we don’t expect to see

David Saxby describes the excavation of a London pub

Archaeology’s satellite dividend

Excavating the Atlantic slave trade that outstayed abolition

Response to a new quarry brings a hillfort to life

Peter Dunn has painted a Stonehenge for the 21st century

Our seventh annual celebration of lovers of antiquity

Seeking the lost city of Dunwich on the Suffolk coast

The Archaeology textbook, education and St Peter’s church

CBA groups, fieldwork, conferences and exhibitions

Gill Chitty considers the new Localism Act

What did Christopher Hitchens say about the Parthenon?

FIRST SIGHT This copper alloy token (main photo, 18mm across) was found by Regis Cursan on the Thames foreshore near Putney Bridge; it can be seen at the Museum of London until April 30. It is, says the Portable Antiquities Scheme, a first century AD Roman spintriafrom southern Europe, the first known from the UK. These show a naked couple (as detail) and a number on the back, and may (or may not) have been used in brothels

He reached for her hungrily, kissing her mouth and her neck and then her body with starved ardour. It had been a long time since they had taken time to explore the Mother's Gift of Pleasure. Ice age intimacy in The Land of Painted Caves, by Jean M Auel (Hodder & Stoughton 2011), shortlisted for the Literary Review's bad sex award

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