July August 2020 Number 173
Published June 5
Archaeology British
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CBA Correspondent
News
Letters
Sharp focus
My archaeology
Greg Bailey / Phase 2
Secrets of an ale lover
Pocklington cemeteries
Neolithic building site
The answer’s in the soil
Books
Casefiles
Spoilheap
Challenging times for archaeology and the cba
Strange “head-and-hooves” burials in Gloucestershire
Covid-19 impact on heritage, and a hoard for Havering
Dun Flodigarry broch, Skye
Janet Miller, ceo at Museum of London Archaeology
Archaeological gold in the broadcast archives
How a new dating technique solved a Westminster mystery
Two chariots, 84 barrows, spears, shields and two cows
A new project at Butser Ancient Farm
A new way to date historic landscape use
Thames at war, rock art, motorway excavations and more
Column 50 celebrates the network hub in York
A silent solstice at Stonehenge
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FIRST SIGHT Much enlarged (the original is a little under 2cm across) this glass gaming piece was found at an excavation of an early medieval monastery on Lindisfarne, Northumberland, last September. Only the second of its kind known from the UK, it would have been part of a set used in tafl, a game derived from the Roman ludus latrunculorumand played across Ireland, Britain and Scandinavia. It is thought to have come from the disturbed grave of someone who died before the island was raided by Vikings in AD793. Photography DigVentures/Durham University
At first it seemed absurd to settle down while civilisation rocked to write of its prehistory. Or with the present painful and the future uncertain, was it perhaps only good sense to escape into the past? Then another justification came into my mind – that prehistory was coming to life. There had been a sudden probability that events long consigned to the remote past might be re-enacted and involve oneself… prehistorians had spent much learning and ingenuity on reconstructing thousand-year-old stories of continental invasions of Britain. In 1940 we awaited a practical demonstration in modern form.
Jacquetta Hawkes, in Prehistoric Britain by j & c Hawkes (1943)
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