May June 2012 Number 124

Published April 6

Archaeology British

THE VOICE OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN BRITAIN AND BEYOND

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News

My archaeology

Greg Bailey / Phase 2

Time Team + letters

The old St Paul’s

Caistor St Edmund

Aldborough

Zoo to Bloomsbury

Community of interest

Chitral

Mick’s travels

Books

Briefing

CBA correspondent

Casefiles

Spoilheap

Pictish cemetery in Perth and iron age leather workers

Artist Jeremy Deller enjoys getting out with the past

Is archaeology safe with bbc4?

The big debate, you write and Tim Taylor reflects

Unpicking the glory of our greatest lost cathedral

The mystery of the strange building in Roman Norfolk

Blitzing a Roman town in Yorkshire with geophysics

The Institute of Archaeology celebrates 75 years

Two local projects try out ideas

Fieldwork in remote Pakistan finds a rich past

An old stone at the centre of things on the Lizard Peninsula

Digging up medieval and Roman London, and the Archers

Local group listings, fieldwork, conferences and exhibitions

The opportunities of Challenge Funding

Jon Wright’s first column on listed buildings casework

Maybe it’s just time to abandon an old format

FIRST SIGHT This silver penny minted in Gloucester by William I (the conqueror) is in unusually good condition. Found last November by Maureen Jones in a field at Highnam, it fills a gap at the mint which is now seen to have been operating throughout William’s reign, and the moneyer Silacwine (here spelt Siliacwinc on the reverse) to have worked there 1074–80. Photo Portable Antiquities Scheme, 19mm across (inset actual size)

For Ahmet and for me, one of the great joys of life has been the study of history, music, languages, literature, art and archaeology. I believe it is tremendously important to support those things that endure across time, that bind people together from every culture. Mica Ertegun, widow of Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun, announcing a gift of £26m to Oxford University for a research centre and graduate scholarships, February 29

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