November December 2010 Number 115 Published October 8

Archaeology British

THE VOICE OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN BRITAIN AND BEYOND

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News

Spoilheap

Letters

Science

Star Carr – the house

At home with the Vikings

Bestwall Quarry

Paul Jacobsthal

Human remains

Strange ways of death

Great excavations

Mick’s travels

On the web

Books

Briefing

CBA correspondent

My archaeology

Britain in archaeology, flints, an old window and Greg Bailey

Lifting the lid on those book review quotes

Homeless diggers, test pits and Carausius’s pocket money

Sebastian Payne looks for the remains beneath the bracken

It’s an old and iconic site, but the digging’s not over yet

Jane Kershaw sees more than invaders in metalwork finds

Eight thousand years of hunters and farmers in Dorset

A German archaeologist exiled by Nazis in Oxford

Why are archaeologists so concerned about new regulations?

Alistair Barclay describes the full story of Boscombe Down

The good old days before project designs and hard hats

Mick Aston visits Bamburgh and Lindisfarne

The mystery of neolithic excavations and Cranborne Chase

Islands, castles and shipwrecks: 14 books reviewed

Archaeological conferences and networking for the winter

Archaeology is not about class, says Mike Heyworth

Artist David Inshaw on time and sensuality in landscape

FIRST SIGHT Found by a metal detectorist in May in a field near Crosby Garrett, Cumbria, this cast and tinned copper alloy sports helmet is one of Britain’s finest Roman artefacts (height 41cm). Restored by Christie’s, it was due to be sold in London the day before this magazine was published, at an estimated £200–300,000

INDIANA JONES: It belongs in a museum. ANTIQUITIES COLLECTOR: So do you. Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade (1989)

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