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In This Issue
News – Bronze age ale and grave flowers, and entire Roman lantern
Letters – Over-hyped hoard, alabaster tomb and Silbury myths
Bluehenge – What the excavators’ really found by the river Avon
Musical landscapes – Know your Picket from your Pivvy, with free music tracks
The Big Dig: A hillfort at Mellor – John Hearle describes a £1m project that began with a photo
Science – Sebastian Payne asks what cremation burials can tell us
The peat men – Isabella Mulhall reports on some brutal iron age killings
The Scottish Cemetery – Tom Addyman has been clearing weeds in Kolkata
Mick’s Travels – Mick Aston visits Orkney and Jon Cannon reviews the sites
On the web – Christmas shopping, and a busy site assembled at speed
In view – Greg Bailey is impressed by Open University broadcasting
Books – War at Plugstreet and Culloden, and interviews with diggers
Briefing – Exhibitions, conferences, CBA contacts and notices
CBA correspondent – Looking back at a year of historic building cases
My archaeology – David Attenborough remembers the early days of television