Introducing the September issue of British Archaeology

Submitted by vicky on Friday, 13 August 2004 Page Views: 3089

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The latest issue of British Archaeology Magazine has a whole host of articles of interest for the prehistoric enthusiast. The cover feature 'The New Pagans Unwrapped' sees Archaeologist Robert J Wallis and anthropologist Jenny Blain talking to modern British pagans about their beliefs and interests.

Other Stories include:

* Rock of ages – major feature

Northern Britain is rich with mysterious and little known abstract carvings on rock outcrops, often in remote locations. Who carved them? When? Why? Clive Waddington has just completed an excavation at Hunterheugh Crags, Northumberland which has for the first time revealed exactly when some carvings were made. To his surprise, some at least date back to the Neolithic.

* Unique decorated Celtic hair clippers found in Essex
Small copper alloy shears, thought to be for cutting human hair, have been excavated on the route of a Transco gas pipeline. Made around 20 BC to AD 70 (contemporary with Boudica) they are beautifully engraved in the classic British Celtic “mirror” style.

* Iron Age bender in Margate
A strange pit excavated in Margate, Kent, surrounded by holes for wooden stakes, has been interpreted as Britain’s first ‘bender’. The pit would have given the hut a sunken floor. Two adult skeletons preserved under a thick deposit of charcoal and burnt daub may be from the hut’s occupants.

* Barrow saved from walkers
Archaeologists had to climb 45 minutes there and back every day, to excavate a Bronze Age burial mound on the highest point in Carmarthenshire. It was being taken apart by walkers building a cairn around a “geocache’ box.

* Irish Bronze Age hoard contains central European objects
A bronze sword, ring and two vessels were buried in an Irish bog around 1100 BC. The bowl and cup are types never before seen in Britain or Ireland, made in south-east Germany and the Czech Republic.

* Why I dug Seahenge
Having completed the research, Mark Brennand, who directed the excavation of the oak ring on the Norfolk beach, explains how much was learnt

REGULARS
* Free competition
Win stone circles CDs
* TV in BA
Reviews of a season of war and battles
* Spoilheap
Neil Mortimer uncovers another rock art theory
* Books
Irish poets, antiquarians and excavators
* Opinion
Peter Drewett wonders what’s wrong with universities?
* Science
Sebastian Payne on climate change
* Briefing
The comprehensive listing of archaeological activities, with exhibition news
* Update
CBA news, including report from new director
* Letters
Ethnic identity, mysticism, Roman disputes and hedge protection
* My archaeology
Beatrice de Cardi looks back on nearly 70 years as an archaeologist

British Archaeology magazine is the only UK-wide retail British archaeology magazine, available bimonthly in larger WH Smiths and Borders and selected independent newsagents, and by subscription.

More details are on their web site, where you can also read older issues of the magazine in full.

Contributor Bio for vicky: Ex Megalithic Portal Editor, Co-author of 'Rock Around the Peak - Megalithic Monuments of the Peak District' and... More

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