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Dowload the July/August issue of British Archaeology

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It's 100 years since the first recorded Druid ceremony at Stonehenge. Druids have come full circle, from eccentrics battling authority to acceptance, only to be ousted by the power of universal public access, by Ronald Hutton, professor of History Bristol University

* "A black day for British justice" At the Beanfield 1,300 police met 600 travellers, whose civil liberties, said the NCCL, were "swept aside". Andy Worthington

* artist Alan Sorrel draws Stonehenge in 1958
The Ministry of Works' chief inspector of ancient monuments tried to stop Sorrell becoming their official reconstruction artist.

* new excavations in the Preselis, source of Stonehenge megaliths. Timothy Darvill & Geoff Wainwright

* English Heritage go spiritual
"We are on the verge of something exciting and innovative", says Kevin Brown, director of the Stonehenge Project


OTHER STORIES INCLUDE

* New Prittlewell lamp find
The rich Essex Anglo-Saxon grave delivers yet another surprise in the lab: an iron lamp containing what may be beeswax, only the third found in Britain.

* Ice age hunters' camp at Norwich City football ground
Excavations at new Carrow Road facilities reveal 11,500BC camp of reindeer and wild horse hunters.

* Time Team Big Roman Dig
Time Team broadcast a week of Roman programmes in July. We feature their website, and an interview with Time Team founder Tim Taylor, recently inaugurated as professor for the public understanding of archaeology at Bristol University: he says historians have too long had the past to themselves

* Saving Hadrian's Wall
After last issue's news story reporting the National Trail's threat to the wall, English Heritage describe in detail the damage and what is being done about it.

* Where did Romans cross the Channel?
Gerald Grainge questions conventional wisdom about Claudius's invasion route

* Looking for Boudicca
Richard Hingley sifts fact and myth


REGULARS
* On the web
Internet publishing, and top sites for archaeological holidays
* In view
What will history and archaeology do as reality television falls out of
favour?
* Spoilheap
Bronze age spectacular turned down by National Museums of Scotland
* Books
A landmark book on world civilisations, Steven Mithen's best book yet and
our first Reader's Choice
* Opinion
Who will say what archaeology's top priorities should be?
* Science
Sebastian Payne on swamp stories
* Briefing
Comprehensive listing of archaeological activities, with exhibition news
* Letters
Amateur enthusiasm, boats and red coats
* Council for British Archaeology News
National Archaeology Week, ejournal seminar and politics

British Archaeology magazine is available in WH Smiths, larger newsagents, and by subscription.

Note: Much of this issue is now online for free reading, try before you buy!
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Re: Impotency of modern ¨druids by Anonymous on Thursday, 16 June 2005
Ït´s really a laughing matter, that people who call themselves ¨druids¨cannot even use their combined ¨powers¨to save ancient sacred sites from destruction' such as the Tara'Skyrne Valley from a major motorway, amongst other things' I still see it as a club of frustrated ex'Christians, the only power they have is to use the PC´s to alert people'the same as the rest of us' so who needs them !!!!
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    Re: Impotency of modern ¨druids by sem on Thursday, 16 June 2005
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    Anon, you've opened a whole new debate.
    Modern "druids" were invented by Dr Price and Iolo Morgannwg in the early 19th century. The originals were wiped out by the Romans.
    Both of these statements will be disagreed with but in essence they are true.
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    Re: Impotency of modern ¨druids by Anonymous on Monday, 20 June 2005
    I find it curious how "the Romans" could have "wiped out" the original "Druids" completely. After all, "the Romans" never conquered Pictland, and never tried to conquer Ireland. Or do you imagine that only Gaul and southern Britain had "Druids"?

    In addition, the "modern 'druids'" to which you refer were founded before the time of "Iolo Morganwg" and his chums, and date back to, at least, 1717, when the earliest "lodge" of these Meso-Druids was founded at the Appletree Tavern in London. These aren't exactly "modern," however, but are actually "Meso-Druids," not quite the same thing as Modern Pagan Druids (Celtic Reconstructionists) or even Neo-Druids (generally Neo-Pagan or even New Age), _much less_ the same thing as the Draoidhean/Draoithe of Gaelic Traditionalist and Celtic Revivalist groups.

    But yes, there's no evidence that conclusively connects the ancient "Druids" with Stonehenge and other such structures.

    As for saving the Tara-Skryne Valley from rape by those who would sacrifice their own parents on the altar of the Shiny Thing, the bulldozers have yet to move in, so don't count any chickens before they're hatched. And though I don't have much faith in what Con Connor and his pals are planning to do on the Solstice, there are other "Druidic" folk involved in the campaign to save the Tara-Skryne Valley, some of whom have contributed to getting the site listed as "endangered," and some of us have our own styles of Draoidheachd which don't rely on "white light" and other New Age silliness or Neo-Pagan "Love, Light, and Life" ethics which forbid the use of destructive magic (in short, some of us *will* curse).

    Though I'm not registering with the site (at this time), I don't want to be "anonymous," so I'll identify myself (by the pen-name by which I am most widely known): Croman mac Nessa.
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    Re: Impotency of modern ¨druids by Anonymous on Sunday, 26 June 2005
    In addition to magic, some druids utilize modern means to achieve a goal such as exploring legal avenues in international and EU law.

    There is a strong case to be made in the international courts regarding the Hill of Tara, and although this has been pointed out again and again to a certain organization, they have consistently failed to take advantage of, or act upon the legal advice and prepared briefs offered gratis.

    Rather than have such impotence artificially imposed by a certain activist organization, some druids choose to take independent legal action-not for thier own glory, but for the greater good.

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