British Archaeology Magazine

16 February 2022

This issue leads with a behind-the-scenes look at the British Museum’s Stonehenge exhibition. Other stories throw further light on the world of Stonehenge, among them a moving burial of three children with an engraved chalk cylinder, hailed as one of the most significant finds from Neolithic Britain for over a century. Stonehenge is famous for megaliths brought from Wales (we have some exclusive news about those), but excavation in the Avebury World Heritage Site has found stone fragments that may come from even further away. With investigations into ancient “Englishness” (apparently there was no such thing) and plastic toys on Cornish beaches, and a round-up of global discoveries, this is again a magazine to satisfy anyone with an archaeological curiosity