The Coffin Roads: journeys to the West

Review by Hugh Cheape Professor Ian Bradley has identified a network of routes extending for miles across our upland and island areas and radiating out from long-used burial grounds. The routes are marked by cairns where funerals, carrying the deceased from township to chosen place of interment, stopped for rest…

Military History Matters Crossword 133

Across 5 Soviet general instrumental in the defeat of Finland in 1940 (10) 7 Battle of WWI fought in August 1914 (4) 9 Battle fought in Castile in April 1367 (6) 10 Country invaded by Japan in December 1941 (8) 11 Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda (8) 13 Visigoth king who…

Gladiators Quiz

Which Roman general defeated a major slave uprising led by the escaped gladiator Spartacus?…

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Time Team: the love affair continues

So, what’s different about this incarnation of Team Time? Besides the charm and expertise of several new cast members, these episodes wholly embrace the countless scientific advances in dating and scanning that have occurred over the last decade.…