Our cover feature takes us to Broadway, a picturesque Gloucestershire village where excavations have revealed a palimpsest of human activity stretching back 8,000 years – including Beaker burials, Iron Age graves, and the county’s largest-known late Roman cemetery.
Funerary practices also form the focus of our next article, exploring a new exhibition that examines what three burial sites in Buckinghamshire (a solitary ‘sentinel’ grave, the Taplow ‘princely’ barrow, and a large community cemetery) can tell us about Anglo-Saxon society.
We then turn to an unusual grave that was discovered in Gloucestershire in 2017. With some of its artefacts newly on display at the Corinium Museum, we revisit the story of the Lechlade ‘chieftain’ and his enigmatic companion.
From there, we head to Anglesey, where long-running excavations have revealed the remains of a unique early medieval trading site and production centre. With the full report now published, we share some of the key findings.
We end with two shorter pieces about milestones. The first celebrates five years since the return of Time Team, and considers how technology can transform how we experience the past. The second marks 100 years since the birth of the pioneering prehistorian Aubrey Burl and 50 years since the publication of his still-influential book The Stone Circles of the British Isles.
In this issue:
FEATURES
THE WARLORD, THE PRINCE, AND THE VILLAGE PEOPLE
Examining three early Anglo-Saxon burial sites from Buckinghamshire
A new exhibition at Discover Bucks Museum in Aylesbury reflects on life and death in early Anglo-Saxon England by exploring excavated evidence from three local burial sites.
LECHLADE’S BURIED SECRETS
Revisiting a long-lived ritual landscape in Gloucestershire
With artefacts from an unusual Bronze Age burial newly displayed at the Corinium Museum in Cirencester, we revisit the story of a landscape that witnessed ceremonial activity from the Neolithic period to the Iron Age.
LLANBEDRGOCH
Exploring a unique early medieval trading centre on Anglesey
Ten seasons of fieldwork near Llanbedrgoch on the north-eastern coast of Anglesey have uncovered an early medieval trading centre and manufacturing hub unparalleled in Wales.
AN ENDURING LANDSCAPE
Uncovering 8,000 years of life and death on the Cotswold Edge
Excavations on the outskirts of Broadway in the Cotswolds have revealed layers of human activity dating back 8,000 years.
Marking five years since the return of Time Team
We interview Tim Taylor, the creator and Executive Producer of Time Team, as he reflects on the programme’s past and present, and how technology is transforming the ways in which we can tell stories about local history.
Aubrey Burl and The Stone Circles of the British Isles
To mark a century since the birth of the pioneering prehistorian Aubrey Burl and the 50th anniversary of the publication of his landmark study The Stone Circles of the British Isles, we examine his life and approach to archaeology.
LETTERS
Your comments, complaints, and compliments
NEWS
Diet and social status in medieval Cambridge; Cooking with the Vikings; Bronze Age watering hole found near Gloucester; Recycled Roman well discovered at Rolls-Royce site; Neolithic trackway uncovered in Somerset; Science Notes; Antonine Wall fortlet found; Finds Tray
NEWS FOCUS
The swords in the stones: new insights from an unusual child burial in Gloucestershire
COMMENT
Joe Flatman excavates the CA archive
CONTEXT
Recreating early medieval manuscripts: Tarbat Discovery Centre, Portmahomack
REVIEWS
High Pasture Cave: ritual, memory, and identity in the Iron Age of Skye; Greyfriars, Blackfriars, and Deep-fat Fryers! 850 years of Glasgow’s High Street; Glasgow: a new history; The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Towns: a Viking gift?; Ness of Brodgar: elements of architecture; Britannia under the boot: Roman militaria from the ‘civil zone’ of southern England
EXHIBITION
Trysor at Oriel Môn in Llangefni, Anglesey
EXHIBITION
Ramses and the Pharaohs’ Gold at Battersea Power Station, London
EXHIBITION
Cornish Myths and Legends at Cornwall Museum & Art Gallery, Truro
MUSEUM NEWS
The latest on acquisitions, exhibitions, and key decisions
LISTINGS
Our selection of exhibitions and events, as well as historical, archaeological, and cultural resources online
GO DIGGING!
Another array of excavation opportunities – get in touch to feature your project next
SHERDS
Chris Catling’s irreverent take on heritage issues
ODD SOCS
The Georgian Group: Vanbrugh 300
