Description
In this issue:
– Almshouse Association
– Beowulf: the movie
– Community Archaeology: from the grassroots
– Cossington monuments, memories and myths
– Industrial Archaeology and Neil Cossons celebrates fifty years
– Welsh Pipeline
– Women, and the Society of Antiquaries Joining
Plus: News, Reviews, Comment, Diary, and more!
From the Editor:
Leading with a profile of Sir Neil Cossons and his work, we celebrate 50 years of industrial archaeology with a look at the newly reopened St Pancreas Station. We look at the hit film Beowulf – and with so much archaeology in the media, surely it is time to ask the question: is it just sexy or is the science being served as well? A look at Bronze Age barrows in Cossington challenges previous notions of what barrows may have meant to the living, as well as the dead. We examine the giant pipeline project in Wales. The ‘big dig’ has already turned up an astonishing amount of sites, and is set to continue. Finally, we discuss the pioneering women in the Society of Antiquaries London and look at how female membership changed that august body, as well as the discipline of archaeology.
Cover Date: Mar-2008, Volume 18 Issue 12