May June 2011 Number 118 Published April 8

Archaeology British

THE VOICE OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN BRITAIN AND BEYOND

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News

Britain in archaeology

Letters

My archaeology

Greg Bailey / Phase 2

Gough’s Cave

Egypt 2011

Heritage Lottery Fund

Vergina

6 threatened sites

Bamburgh Castle

Mick’s travels

On the web

Books

Briefing

CBA correspondent

Spoilheap

An Anglo-Saxon coulter, and progress with human remains

What’s been in the archaeological news that matters

Nuclear power – lessons from the past

Confessions of a soprano

Our TV critic on Mud Men, and updates on earlier stories

Exclusive report on one of the UK’s most significant sites

The ancient civilisation at the heart of a modern revolution

The HLF has £255m to spend. And after that they have more

An unfamiliar but glorious Greece comes to the Ashmolean

How archaeologists struggle to save the legacy of millennia

Digging a medieval chapel at an iconic Northumberland site

Mick Aston follows the monks’ trail in France and England

How to find digs, and a new South Downs Park website

Roman imperialism, Roman myths and the Thames valley

Your up to date guide to fieldwork, courses and conferences

The Marsh Archaeology Award honours heritage volunteers

Could branding hold the key to surviving difficult times?

FIRST SIGHT This Roman glass beaker had been placed under the body of a man, with the pot and two coins (the third coin by his head), in a grave on Boscombe Down, Wiltshire; he was about 40 when he died in the late fourth century AD. The grave was in one of five Roman cemeteries investigated by Wessex Archaeology (three of them entirely excavated) in advance of new housing on the edge of Amesbury (9cm high)

In popular culture, archaeology's star has rarely risen so high. But politicians behave as if it were unloved... It is further evidence of Westminster's distance from the national bloodstream. Jonathan Jones comments on guardian.co.uk on cuts to the Stonehenge project, June 2010. English Heritage has announced that building at the new visitor site will start in the year of the 2012 Olympics

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