British Archaeology Magazine

5 April 2023

This issue of British Archaeology brings stories of change, from a ship, a dig, modern burial mounds, and a celebration of industrial remains. In the timbers of HMS Trincomalee are inscribed messages from an era of shifting power between India and Britain. Excavations at a church in Kent chart the growth of a village and its sacred Christian heritage. In Britain today people are seeking new ideas of spiritualty and community in columbaria –structures for storing cremated remains – fashioned after Neolithic burial mounds. Industrialisation was still underway when archaeologists began to record its traces, even as they continue to be demolished and erased: we look at 50 years of research and conservation. Plus the challenges of heritage and wellbeing projects, a teacher interviewed whose pupils became prominent archaeologists, reviews, news from around the world, and more.