September October 2011 Number 120 Published August 12

Archaeology British

THE VOICE OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN BRITAIN AND BEYOND

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News

Letters

My archaeology

Greg Bailey / Phase 2

The Roman road that was

Science

Archaeology: win or lose

Sacred waters

Manga at the museum

Pictish power

7 societies

Stones and names

Mick’s travels

Books

Briefing

CBA correspondent

Spoilheap

Gold in Scotland and swords in England

Detectorists are not all bad

Norman Hammond, archaeologist and journalist

Planet of the Apemen searches for a voice

Prehistoric Britain had metalled roads – the evidence

Sebastian Payne says archaeologists should copy Pitt Rivers

The future looks bleak, but the best may be yet to come

Jim Leary and David Field consider neolithic religion

Japanese professor in British Museum mystery

Rhynie: the Aberdeenshire dig that found a lost kingdom

A review of our regional archaeological societies

The search for the archaeology of Anglo-Saxon assemblies

Mick Aston celebrates the life and work of Philip Rahtz

Great digs, Roman mosaics and Anglo-Saxon metalwork

Fieldwork, courses, local CBA contacts and exhibitions

Mike Heyworth plans for the future

Getting into the papers (for the right reasons)

FIRST SIGHT This hare (62mm long) would have been held from its ankles by a hunter in a ceramic figure group. It is of unglazed Parian body developed by Copeland & Garret and Minton in the 1830s and 40s for popular small-scale copies of statues. It was excavated at Brill Place, Camden, by Museum of London Archaeology in a drain belonging to houses cleared as slums in the mid 19th century. Photo Andy Chopping

As a boy I understood perfectly that history is not something apart from us, sealed off. It is in our blood, our music, our language, the buildings we pass on the way to work. Novelist Andrew Miller introducing his list of top historical fiction, which begins with Rosemary Sutcliff’s Eagle of the Ninth, on guardian.co.uk, June 29

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