DIG DEEP FOR ARCHAEOLOGY

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This issue’s contributors include David Harrison

has written previously for British Archaeology about the Palace of Westminster, and would now like to know what has been found in recent excavations at Reading Abbey. See page 24

Nela Scholma-Mason

has been looking at Norse runes in a Neolithic tomb in Orkney, with colleagues at the universities of York and Glasgow. On page 46 they describe a pilot study using digital imaging

Sarah Colley

co-edited reports on a major study across ten countries of what we can learn about Roman dining habits from excavated pottery. She presents key insights on page 50

Radiocarbon dates

Unless otherwise noted, 14c dates in British Archaeology are calibrated at 95% confidence (cal ad or cal bc, expressed as ad or bc), and rounded out after Mook (1986). See wikipedia.org/wiki/ Radiocarbon_dating