Sublime

Many of the completed hand-axes at Boxgrove were removed from the site, but in one instance the knapper accidentally knocked the tip off an almost finished hand-axe. I can well imagine what he said when this happened. So he did what I would have done: he threw the broken end away in disgust, and dropped the now useless tool in with the rest of the

Projecting the aisled halls and villas of the late Roman province, which tell of thriving rural lordship, into the century after, say, 450 is a tough ask. Archaeology has little to say of individuals like Vortigern, Hengest, Arthur or Ambrosius, although one might ascribe to them, as a governing class, the planning and execution of the linear earth

By the end of the fourth century the temple at Uley Hill had partially collapsed and been demolished. It was now rebuilt on a more modest scale, as an L-shaped structure.o Within another generation or two, at some time during the fifth century, it was replaced by a timber building that looks for all the world like a basilica, with accompanying bapt

Fishing net weights and hooks suggest that fish remained important. This is confirmed by levels of 15N in the bones of people who lived on the Dnieper Rapids, which indicate a meat diet containing more than 50% fish.