This month’s cover features an image of Newgrange, one of Ireland’s most famous Neolithic passage tombs. Recent analysis has shed intriguing light on the people who were buried within these grand monuments – and on the structure of the societies that they belonged to.

Questions of identity also lie at the heart of our next article, which examines recent research into the impact of Viking attacks and Scandinavian settlement across the north of England.

From raiding to trading, we then trace the heritage of the British High Street, offering new insights into these familiar environments.

Finally, we leap back in time to explore the remarkable artistic outpouring that Britain and Continental Europe witnessed towards the end of the last Ice Age.

Adding to the above, extended news reports cover a pair of Roman cavalry swords from the Cotswolds; and recent work that has revealed the identity of a 250-year-old shipwreck discovered on an Orkney beach.

Finally, I would like to offer my warmest wishes to Amy Brunskill, who is leaving CA to work for our sister magazines Current World Archaeology and Military History Matters. Amy first joined our team for CA 356 (November 2019), and she has made an invaluable contribution over the last few years, including her ingenious invention of ‘Heritage from Home’ during the first COVID-19 lockdown. Thank you, Amy, and good luck with your future endeavours!

CARLY