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In mid-April, with outdoor attractions reopening to the public, CA<\/em> marked an exciting milestone: our first site visit of 2021. We went to Butser Ancient Farm, the ever-inventive experimental archaeology centre in the South Downs, and this month\u2019s cover feature introduces the site\u2019s latest reconstructed building \u2013 a Neolithic house based on remains excavated by Wessex Archaeology near Horton \u2013 as well as an online platform devised to safeguard the site\u2019s financial future and help share its research worldwide.<\/p>\n

Turning from the Neolithic to later prehistory, our next two features explore enigmatic Bronze Age and Iron Age ways of engaging with the dead. Extensive research focused on the Sculptor\u2019s Cave in Moray has illuminated 1,500 years of activity, including intriguing funerary traditions, at the remote site. We then examine an equally distinctive tradition of treating the dead: what can we learn from bog bodies?<\/p>\n

Leaping forward to the medieval period, we then investigate two castles on the Welsh border \u2013 who built them so unusually close together, and why?<\/p>\n

Finally, this month\u2019s \u2018In Focus\u2019 heralds the return of an archaeological institution. It was almost exactly 100 issues ago, in CA<\/em> 274, that we reported on Time Team<\/em> coming to an end. This long-running TV programme was hugely influential \u2013 not least to me: I was six when the show first aired and pretty much grew up with it. Time Team<\/em> also gave me my first job in \u2018archaeological media\u2019, when I worked as a researcher on Series 18. (Bonus points if you can spot my fleeting on-screen appearance dressed as a Roman!) It\u2019s very exciting, then, to share news of the Team\u2019s plan to carry out two digs in the summer \u2013 watch this space for further updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this\u00a0issue:<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Rebuilding the past: Butser Ancient Farm\u2019s Neolithic\u00a0new<\/span> dawn
– A story of two castles: tracing the origins of two fortifications in the March of Ewyas
– Touching the past: encountering Iron Age bog bodies
– Darkness dispelled: exploring 1,500 years of life and death in the Sculptor\u2019s Cave
– Time Team returns: how an archaeological institution rose to dig again<\/p>\n

Plus: News, Reviews, Science Notes, Heritage from Home, Sherds, and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2906,"template":"","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"","site-sidebar-style":"","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[465],"product_tag":[20],"class_list":{"0":"post-2351","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-back-issue-current-archaeology","7":"product_tag-current-archaeology","8":"product_shipping_class-back-issue","9":"desktop-align-center","10":"tablet-align-center","11":"mobile-align-center","12":"ast-product-gallery-layout-first-image-large","13":"ast-product-gallery-with-no-image","14":"ast-magnify-disabled","15":"ast-product-tabs-layout-distributed","17":"first","18":"instock","19":"taxable","20":"shipping-taxable","21":"purchasable","22":"product-type-simple"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/currentpublishing.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/CA375_cover_1000.jpg",1000,1343,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/currentpublishing.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/CA375_cover_1000-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/currentpublishing.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/CA375_cover_1000-223x300.jpg",223,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/currentpublishing.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/CA375_cover_1000-768x1031.jpg",768,1031,true],"large":["https:\/\/currentpublishing.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/CA375_cover_1000-762x1024.jpg",762,1024,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/currentpublishing.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/CA375_cover_1000.jpg",1000,1343,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/currentpublishing.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/CA375_cover_1000.jpg",1000,1343,false],"woocommerce_thumbnail":["https:\/\/currentpublishing.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/CA375_cover_1000-300x400.jpg",300,400,true],"woocommerce_single":["https:\/\/currentpublishing.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/CA375_cover_1000-600x806.jpg",600,806,true],"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":["https:\/\/currentpublishing.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/CA375_cover_1000-100x100.jpg",100,100,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/currentpublishing.com\/shop\/author\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"In this\u00a0issue: - 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