This issue’s contributors include

Elizabeth Hallam Smith

is an architecture and heritage consultant at the ukParliament and former House of Lords librarian. On page 16 she and her colleagues tell an open and shut detective story

Paula Ware

recently managed the excavation of hectares of Iron Age cemeteries in Yorkshire. With her colleagues she describes the setting for some spectacular discoveries, starting on page 24

Soetkin Vervust

moves between Newcastle University and the Vrije Universiteit Brussels. On page 40 she and colleagues explain how they proved a new way of dating fields in Northumberland and Cornwall

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), rounded out after Mook (1986). See “Radiocarbon dating” by M Christie et al, WikiJournal of Science (2018), doi: 10.15347/wjs/2018.006