This issue of CA has a watery theme. We start with Graeme Young’s account of excavating burnt mounds in the wetlands of Bamburgh in Northumberland. Are these mounds the waste from large-scale brewing or were the heated stones used to provide steam for a sauna?<\/p>\n
Next, Robert Van de Noort tells our Assistant Editor, Carly Hilts, about the construction of a replica Bronze Age boat. Nervous moments preceded the launch, but Morgawr, as she was dubbed, proved to be a sleek and seaworthy vessel.<\/p>\n
Boats of a different kind \u201a flat-bottomed punts \u201a were used to carry goods by canal in Roman East Anglia. Deep in the Fens, Chris Evans and his team have excavated a port settlement that probably supplied the Saxon Shore forts with food.<\/p>\n
Our cover story, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the seaside leisure pier, coincides with the fire that damaged much of Eastbourne pier on 31 July 2014. Fortunately nobody was hurt, but the fire reminds us that so many piers have suffered a similar fate.<\/p>\n
The tragic outbreak of the First World War marked the end of the golden age of pier-building. Emily Glass tells us about the ‘Home Front and Its Legacies’ pilot project, set up to ask how buildings and land were used to support Britain’s war-effort between 1914 and 1918.<\/p>\n
All this and more… we review the new detective novel by Francis Pryor, a long-standing friend of this magazine \u201a and it’s a winner! Could Francis be the next Agatha Christie?
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\nIN THIS ISSUE:\/n
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\nFEATURES\/n
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\nHOPPENWOOD BANK\/n
\nExploring a burnt mound landscape
\nExcavations at a bog near Bamburgh have uncovered a complex wetland landscape with enigmatic mounds and timber platforms dating back to the Early Neolithic.<\/p>\n
BUILDING MORGAWR\/n
\nSeafaring Bronze Age-style
\nWhat did Britain’s Bronze Age boats look like, and how did they handle on open water? We join an extraordinary archaeological experiment to find out.<\/p>\n
EXCAVATING EARITH\/n
\nWas the Roman fenland an imperial estate?
\nA decade of archaeological work over 62ha of Cambridgeshire fenland has shed vivid new light on the site’s occupation during the Roman period.<\/p>\n
BRITISH SEASIDE PIERS\/n
\nA promenade through the past
\nJuly 2014 saw the 200th anniversary of the opening of Britain’s first leisure pier, but also a devastating fire at Eastbourne. We explore the evolution of these elegant constructions.<\/p>\n
BRITAIN AT WAR, 1914-1918\/n
\nThe archaeology of the Home Front
\nIn the second of our three features marking the centenary of the First World War, we learn about the impact of the conflict on Britain’s physical and social landscape.<\/p>\n
\nNEWS\/n
\nThe Kirkhaugh craftsman: a second Amesbury Archer?; Neolithic conflict at Caerau; Binchester boasts one of Britain’s earliest Christian objects; Found: Jersey’s first Iron Age house; Two sides to Moray’s symbol stone story; The Ockham Hoard: unexpected artefacts; Revealing Richard III’s royal lifestyle; New Viking hoard; Northampton Museum loses accreditation for selling statue<\/p>\n
\nREGULARS\/n
\nContext
\nEvoking imperial glory at Arbeia Roman Fort<\/p>\n
Reviews
\nThe Lifers’ Club; The History of Archaeology; The Early Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of Southern Britain; The Viking Ship<\/p>\n
Sherds
\nChris Catling’s irreverent take on heritage issues<\/p>\n
Odd Socs
\nThe International Guild of Knot Tyers<\/p>\n
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