January February 2015 Number 140
Published December 5 2014
Archaeology British
THE VOICE OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN BRITAIN AND BEYOND
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News
Letters
My archaeology
Greg Bailey / Phase 2
Viking hoard
Upper Thames Valley
Colonial architecture
Lost in Orkney
Remembering Mithras
Two great artists
Books
Briefing
Correspondent
Casefiles
Spoilheap
New town at Old Sarum, Celtic chariot and Nero in England
Archaeology and nationalism, and funny bits of wood
Our cartoonist Bill Tidy reflects on his craft
What exactly is bad TV archaeology?
Scottish find turned out to be more than just treasure
Pioneering survey of fieldwork on a very large scale
Europeans in coastal east Africa built for control
A broken Victorian basin reveals its stories
The impact of one of London’s most momentous digs
Archaeology in the work of Anselm Kiefer and Ai Weiwei
Neolithic origins, and imagining the Jorvik Viking Centre
Fieldwork, meetings, local groups and exhibitions
How training can promote access and participation
Grenson shoe factory, Northamptonshire
Are you ready for the palaeolithic diet?
FIRST SIGHT Anglo-Saxons are often depicted in greys and browns, but they liked colour, as these glass beads show, found at the end of excavations which revealed spectacular evidence for timber royal halls (News Jan/Feb 2014/ 134). Also found was this cone-beaker base (inset), among “a steady stream of luxury vessel glass”. Beads and pin c life size; copper alloy bird token 23mm across. Photography by John Piddock/University of Reading
Andy: Bede says so, in Historia Eclesiastica. Sophie: I don’t think half the professors have read Bede! Andy: Well, you can learn a lot from the amateurs. We’re the most passionate, the plebs. Sophie: Are you allowed to use that word, these days? Andy: In a historical context, yea, it’s fine.
Detectorists, BBC4 October 9 2014
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