This month\u2019s cover story takes us to Drumelzier in the Scottish Borders, and more specifically to a site with a wonderfully romantic name: Merlin\u2019s Grave. A community project has been exploring the origins of this legendary link \u2013 uncovering illuminating evidence of the area\u2019s early medieval and Iron Age past along the way. We remain in Scotland for a special \u2018News Focus\u2019 about Stonehenge. Yes, you read that right \u2013 recently published scientific research suggests that the Altar Stone was originally quarried in the Orcadian Basin, over 450 miles from Salisbury Plain. What does this mean for our understanding of social organisation in Neolithic Britain, and of Stonehenge itself?<\/p>\n
From long journeys to long spans of time, we then travel to New Ross in Ireland, where a major bypass project has uncovered archaeological evidence reflecting 9,000 years of human history, including the first early Neolithic house to be found in Co. Wexford.<\/p>\n
A rather more recent house forms the focus of our next article, which describes the trials and triumphs of restoration work at Northwold Manor in Norfolk.<\/p>\n
From restoration to reconstruction, we then travel to Harborough Museum in Leicestershire, where an innovative project centred on the Hallaton Helmet has created contrasting reconstructions of this ornate Roman artefact, using traditional and cutting-edge techniques.<\/p>\n
Finally, we visit another experimental reconstruction, albeit on a rather larger scale, in York\u2019s Museum Gardens, where archaeologists have rebuilt \u2018Britain\u2019s oldest house\u2019 based on Mesolithic evidence from Star Carr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\n– Nine millennia of life: excavations around New Ross in south-east Ireland
\n– How to restore a manor: breathing life into a Grade II*-listed Norfolk building
\n– A home for hunter-gatherers? Reconstructing \u2018Britain\u2019s oldest house\u2019
\n– Roman replicas: recreating the Hallaton helmet
\n– Scottish origins for the Stonehenge Altar Stone?<\/p>\n