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Weekly meeting report Sydney Anglo, FSA, entertained Fellows this week with an account of the exaggerated respect that ‘armchair generals’ and ‘word warriors’ afforded to classical authorities when debating the […]

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Weekly meeting report At the weekly meeting held on 19 February 2004, the General Secretary proved that he could easily have had (and might yet have) a career as an […]

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Weekly meeting report At the weekly meeting held on 12 February 2004, David Hill, FSA, gave Fellows an account of the Anglo-Saxon map of England and Wales compiled by Laurence […]

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Weekly meeting report At this week’s meeting, Simon Jervis, Hon VPSA, described the engravings published by William Bell Scott in his ‘Antiquarian Gleanings in the North of England’ (c 1851) […]

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Weekly meeting report This week’s meeting took the form of a ballot. Andrew Fitzpatrick, FSA, exhibited a Bronze Age rapier from Testwood in Hampshire, and discussed the ritual deposition of […]

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Weekly meeting report A recent proposal to designate the Cevennes/Grand Causse region as a World Heritage Landscape shows only four ancient monuments in the Causse M’jean, an upland region slightly […]

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Weekly meeting report At the meeting held on 15 January 2004, Paul Harvey, FSA, and Malcolm Jones, FSA, revealed their shared passion for collecting references to animal names in historical […]

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Weekly meeting report At the meeting held on 8 January 2004, Simon Kaner gave an account of recent developments in Japanese archaeology, from the recent scandal of Japan’s early Palaeolithic […]

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Christmas greetings Salon‘s editor wishes everyone a happy and peaceful Christmas and New Year and promises to be back on 12 January with more clippings from the media featuring the […]

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Weekly meeting report Discussing just five documents out of the 20,000 or so held in the Berkeley Castle Muniments Room, David Smith, FSA, illustrated the range, depth and breadth of […]