Lockdown has had its silver lining: working remotely with David Hernandez in South Bend, Indiana, Butrint 7 – a complicated volume bringing together old archaeological reports and an array of modern excavation accounts has now been published. This is the latest of the Butrint Foundation’s monograph series. Unlike the six preceding volumes, monograph 7 focusses upon excavations and surveys in Butrint’s (ancient Buthrotum) hinterland. Butrint 7 charts how settlement in this Epi

The UK government, struggling with Brexit and the pandemic, have reacted by ear-marking treasury cuts in a practice Britain does best: archaeology. In the week when Netflix chalked up a global success with its film, The Dig, about the 1939 rescue/research excavations at Sutton Hoo, the British government decided to downgrade funding to university courses in archaeology: https://www.apollo-magazine.com/archaeology-funding-cut-uk-government/ It is 50 years to the very month sin