Across
6 Ancient Greek historian and geographer (6)
8 Emperor whose return to Rome from campaigns in Spain and Gaul was honoured by the building of the Ara Pacis (8)
10 Member of a Germanic people believed to have invaded Britain in the 5th century AD (4)
11 Stone tip found throughout Australia (5,5)
12 Ancient pictographic script of Easter Island (10)
14 Egyptian god of the desert and thunderstorms (4)
15 Elias ___, English antiquarian born in Lichfield in 1617 (7)
17 The main hill of Rome (7)
20 William ___ Pantin, medieval historian with a particular interest in the antiquities of Oxford (4)
22 Neolithic culture of Switzerland (10)
24 Glossy red Roman pottery (6,4)
25 Member of a nomadic people of south-eastern Russia (4)
26 US state, location of the Beaver Valley Rock Shelter site (8)\
27 Visigoth king who captured Rome in 410 (6)
Down
1 Alan ___ , British archaeologist who specialised in prehistoric Greece (4)
2 Metal alloyed with tin to produce bronze (6)
3 Prehistoric communities of the 2nd millennium in Colombia (7)
4 Roman governor of Britain from 78 to 84 AD (8)
5 Iron Age site in southern France (6)
7 North European tribe who may have originated in Jutland (7)
9 ___ Manor, National Trust property in Gloucestershire (9)
13 Neolithic and Copper Age culture of the Balkans (9)
16 ___ ware, 6th-century Spartan pottery (8)
18 Bronze Age culture of Hungary and Romania (7)
19 Pieces of armour protecting the lower legs (7)
21 Metal or ceramic drinking vessel of various types (6)
23 Phase of activity in the Tehuacán Valley, Mexico, dating to 4300-3000 BC (6)
25 Syrian war goddess, the sister of Baal (4)
For answers to #114, see next issue.
Answers to Crossword #113
Across: 7 Carthage, 9 Hussar, 10 Lorcha, 11 Lombards, 12 Afontova Culture, 13 Chanson de Roland, 17 Charles Phillips, 21 Odysseus, 22 Draper, 23 Greece, 24 Thessaly.
Down: 1 Badorf, 2 Karanovo, 3 Aeolian deposits, 4 Thembu, 5 Assart, 6 Mandarin, 8 Tacanan, 14 Hahndorf, 15 Reindeer, 16 Lallans, 18 Rossen, 19 Exeter, 20 Pueblo.
