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| Contents | |
| Issue 45 | 2012 |
| A Croom | A Survey of Finger Rings |
| R Oram | Here Be Dragons |
| TWA | Discoveries at Shotton, Northumberland |
| Issue 44 | 2011 |
| J Frazer | Ballast railways and Ropewalks at Arbeia |
| G Stobbs | Excavations at Arbeia in 2010 and 2011 |
| R Oram | Dear Ma...When a Roman Writes a Letter |
| A Croom | Wine and Amphora |
| B Griffiths | The Arbeia Society at 20 |
| Issue 43 | 2011 |
| A Croom | Knocking and Creeing |
| R Oram | Acis and Galatea |
| J Frazer | Tynemouth Headland -its Place in Our History |
| D Richardson, J Strickland, J Scott | Burials in Durham Marketplace |
| Issue 42 | 2010 |
| A Croom | Old Objects |
| F Garrett | Killingworth Waggonway, Tyne and Wear |
| R Oram | Atalanta |
| J Frazer | The Battle of Boldon, the March to York and the Battle of Marston Moor |
| J Pugh | Jesmond Mill, Jesmond Dene |
| Issue 41 (first issue in colour ) | 2010 |
| A Croom | A visit to the baths |
| R Oram | A Silent Saxon Story |
| J Frazer | Monastic Granges and the Fox Covert Excavations 2005 |
| J Frazer | Tyneside in the English Civil War |
| Issue 40 | 2009 |
| R Oram | The Food Chain |
| C Romar | The Painful Plough: A look at Ridge and Furrow |
| A Croom | The Shape of Pots to Come |
| G Stobbs | Excavations at Arbeia 2009 |
| Issue 39 | 2009 |
| D Richardson | Material Culture Reflecting Gender in the Early Monasteries of Northern England |
| N Hodgson and P Bidwell | The Pilgrimage and Limes Congress |
| R Oram | I Hunt...So I Gather |
| A Croom | Name and Number: the Centurial Stones of Hadrian's Wall |
| H Lynch | Understanding Flint |
| R Ibrahim | The Journey of the Cuneiform Tablet |
| Issue 38 | 2008 |
| N. Hodgson | The Reconstruction of Legionary Temples at Corbridge, on the Northern Frontier of Britain |
| R. Oram | A Grimm Experience |
| TWM Staff | Excavations at Delhi and Shotton, Northumberland |
| A. T. Croom, G. Scott and H. Lynch | Finds Spot: the Museum Collection |
| Issue 37 | 2008 |
| P. Bidwell | Results of a Survey of the Saxon Crypt at Hexham Abbey |
| A. T. Croom | I to X |
| R. Oram | I Sing a Tale That is Still Worth Telling |
| A. T. Croom | The People of Arbeia |
| R. A. Mor | Waking in the Age of Iron |
| Editor | Transformation |
| Issue 36 | 2007 |
| A. T. Croom | Finds Spot: the Finds of 1878 |
| A. T. Croom | A Prospector at South Shields |
| G. Ramoorer | A Walk Around Segedunum |
| R. Oram | A Misericord For a Monk |
| R. Oram | Misericord |
| Issue 35 | 2007 |
| R. Oram | Changing Ways in Archaeology |
| A. T. Croom | Disability in the Roman World |
| R. Oram | A Remote Chance |
| A. T. Croom | Finds Spot: Lead |
| M. E. Snape and T. Frain | The Roman Bridge at Corbridge –Latest News of the Project |
| Issue 34 | 2006 |
| W. B. Griffiths | Eu-Roman Coinage |
| S. Panesaar | ‘To the God Eusculapius, Publius Viboleius Donated This Altar as a Gift’ |
| A. T. Croom | Finds Spot: That’s Entertainment |
| R. Oram | Tales of the Old Garderobe Cleaner |
| C. Romar | The Many Walls of Hadrian |
| G. Stobbs | The Rerend John Horsley |
| Issue 33 | 2006 |
| A. T. Croom | Appearances Can Be Deceptive |
| E. Thompson | Archaeology and Learning in Tyne and Wear Museums |
| A. T. Croom | Military Law |
| R. Oram | The Year of a Slave |
| T. W. Museums | Excavations at Fox Covert Dinnington, 2005 |
| N. Hodgson | The Roman Villa and Society in the North East |
| G. Stobbs | Constantine |
| Issue 32 | 2005 |
| T. Frain | Recovering the Roman Bridge at Corbridge |
| R. Aroma | Made to measure |
| A. T. Croom | Handy household hints for the Roman housewife |
| R. Oram | Dear Corinthus |
| L. Gidney | The Romano-Gaulish woman’s garments from Les Martres de Veyre: a possible reconstruction |
| Issue 31 | 2005 |
| G. Stobbs | The Reverend John Hodgson |
| A. T. Croom | Finds spot: using finds as dating |
| R. O. Satsuma | Picture story, The long tea break |
| B. Griffiths | Les Baños Publicos (the Roman Baths) as a Roman symbol |
| A. T. Croom | Lights, camera…wristguards! |
| TWM staff | Hadrian’s Wall: fitting the pieces together |
| Issue 30 | 2004 |
| G. Stobbs | Punch-ups on the Wall: a History of Trouble on the Frontier |
| R. Oram | Olympic Spirit |
| A. Goldwater | Flushed with success? Confessions of a Roman Latrine Hunter |
| A. T. Croom | Finds Spot: Greek Graffiti |
| Domestica (aka A. T. Croom) | Handy household hints for the Roman housewife |
| Issue 29 | 2004 |
| A. T. Croom | Finds Spot: Painted Plaster |
| N. Hodgson | Fire! Destruction by the Enemy |
| R. Oram | Groundbreaking Discoveries |
| R. Oram | New Frescos for Old |
| Domestica (aka A. T. Croom) | Roman Lifestyle |
| Issue 28 | 2004 |
| T. Frain &J. McKelvey | Hadrian’s Wall at Throckley |
| A. T. Croom | Furnishing the Commanding Officer’s House |
| R. Oram | The Tail end of the Pig |
| R. Oram | Macc Da Tho’s Pig |
| G. Stobbs | The 2003 Excavation Season at Arbeia |
| E. Elliott | Arbeia’s Golden Year |
| R. McBride | Arbeia Browser |
| Issue 27 | 2003 |
| M. E. Snape | People of the Castle Garth, Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Training for Archaeology: the Regina Project | |
| A. T. Croom | Finds Spot: The Last 50 Years |
| R.Oram | A Nice Age for Some |
| A. T. Croom | The Barrack Interiors |
| R. Oram | The Lawe Top’s Story |
| The Arbeia Society (Drumming up Recruits) | |
| Issue 26 | 2003 |
| N. Hodgson | The Reconstructed Commanding Officer’s House |
| A. T. Croom | Finds Spot: the Museum |
| G. Stobbs | The Limes |
| R. Oram | Hawker’s Tale |
| R. McBride | Arbeia.Browser |
| R. McBride | Picking up the Pieces |
| P. Carrick | The Story of Valerius Valentinius continued |
| Issue 25 | 2002 |
| A. Wightman | Roman Nomenclature |
| M. E. Snape | The Roman Fort of Newcastle upon Tyne: Results of a Recent Post-excavation Programme |
| A. T. Croom | Finds Spot: Amphorae |
| R. Oram | A Little Light Linguistics |
| J. McKelvey | An Excavation at Swan Hunter’s Shipyard, Wallsend |
| W. B. Griffiths | 10 Years On – the First Decade of the Arbeia Society |
| A. T. Croom | Food & Drink: 101 Roman Cocktails |
| S. Speak | Iron Age Settlements at Newcastle Great Park |
| Issue 24 | 2002 |
| J. McKelvey | Hadrian’s Wall at Shields Road, Byker |
| A. T. Croom | Food & Drink |
| A. Wightman | Astronomical Ideas in the Roman Period |
| R. Oram | Groundbreaking Discoveries |
| N. Hodgson | Prehistoric Remains beneath Arbeia Roman Fort, South Shields |
| W. B. Griffiths (with M. Forrester) | A ‘Grate’ Project |
| A. T. Croom | Finds Spot: Prehistoric Finds |
| Issue 23 | 2001 |
| S the D | Contracting Archaeology |
| N. Hodgson | Cavalry Barracks at South Shields and Wallsend |
| R. Oram | The Gladiators |
| R. Oram | Never too Late |
| P. T. Bidwell | A Roman shipwreck in the Tyne (based on an article) |
| A. T. Croom | Finds Spot: Late Roman Fittings |
| P. Carrick | The Journal of Valerius Valentinius |
| Issue 22 | 2000 |
| W. B. Griffiths | Emperors in Britain |
| G. Stobbs | John Collingwood Bruce |
| A. T. Croom | Finds Spot: Gladiators |
| R. Oram | Picture Story |
| A. T. Croom | Food & Drink: Pliny the Elder |
| A. Wightman | The Roman Calendar |
| W. B. Griffiths | Book Review: Roman Woman – Everyday Life in Hadrian’s Britain |
| Issue 21 | 2000 |
| M. E. Snape | The Victorians at Hardknott Roman Fort |
| G. Stobbs | Mr John Clayton of Chesters |
| R. Oram | Some Notes on Bathing |
| R. Oram | Along the Waggonway |
| A. T. Croom | Finds Spot: Segedunum |
| W. B. Griffiths | Segedunum 2000 |
| A. T. Croom | Food and Drink: Luxuries |
| Issue 20 | 1999 |
| P. T. Bidwell | The 1875 Excavations at South Shields |
| N. Hodgson | The last 50 years & the next 50 years of research at South Shields |
| R. Oram | A day in Rome |
| A. T. Croom | Food & Drink: the meals of the day |
| E. L. Thornborrow | Arbeia & the South Shields Archaeological & Historical Society |
| G. Stobbs | All Fired Up! Testing the reconstructed baths at Wallsend |
| Issue 19 | 1999 |
| R. Oram | Hadrian’s Wall at Wallsend 1998 |
| W. B. Griffiths | The units of the Roman Army (part 2) |
| R. Oram | The North-East coalfield in the 18th & 19th centuries |
| G. Stobbs | Along Hadrian’s Wall; the pilgrim’s progress |
| R. Oram | Hadrian has an Idea |
| A. T. Croom | Finds Spot: Animals in Roman art |
| A. Lloyd-Hughes | Heads you lose |
| A. T. Croom | Food & Drink: Cato |
| Issue 18 | 1998 |
| R. Oram | The Wallsend Colliery B Pit |
| A. T. Croom | Food & Drink: Apicius |
| G. Rogan | Discoveries in a Barrack at Segedunum |
| A. Lloyd-Hughes | Come On Team! |
| R. Oram | Roman Remedies |
| G. Stobbs | Excavations at Arbeia |
| A. T. Croom | Finds Spot: Harness Fittings |
| W. B. Griffiths | Obituary |
| C. Waddington | Poem |
| Issue 17 | 1998 |
| P. T. Bidwell | What’s in a Name? |
| M. E. Snape | The Roman Baths at Segedunum |
| A. Lloyd-Hughes | Mars has an Identity Crisis |
| G. Brogan | Religion in the Roman Army |
| R. Oram | Happy Birthday, Quinta |
| G. Stobbs | The 1997 Excavations at Arbeia |
| Various | Comments from Quinta |
| A. T. Croom | Finds Spot: The Soldiers of CVG |
| W. B. Griffiths | Soldiers of Segedunum |
| A. T. Croom | Food & Drink: Chicken |
| M. E. Snape | Taking the Plunge |
| E. Montgomery | Building Brigantium |
| Issue 16 | 1997 |
| S. Speak &P. Frodsham | Hillforts in the Northumberland National Park – a strategic study |
| W. B. Griffiths | Frontier spotting – or what I did in my holidays |
| J. McKelvey | Segedunum fort excavations: Camp Road site |
| A. Lloyd-Hughes | Trust in the gods & keep your spear sharp |
| A. T. Croom | Finds Spot: finds from the barrack |
| R. Oram | You are Tomb-Digger |
| G. Stobbs | What’s the story, Arbeia glory? |
| A. T. Croom | Food & Drink: Anthimus |
| C. Hudson | A standard recipe |
| Issue 15 | 1997 |
| R. Oram (Rodent Scolar) | A Little Roman Research |
| A. Lloyd Jones | We Who Are about to Die |
| W. B. Griffiths | The Segedunum Project |
| Billy Bruce | Simpson’s Hotel 1955 |
| A. T. Croom | Finds Spot: Coins |
| R. Oram | In the Reign of Severus |
| W. Flood | Ancient Technology |
| M. E. Snape | 20th Anniversary of the Excavations at Arbeia |
| V. Douglas | Alan Bell; A Life |
| R. Oram | What Spellcheckers Really Mean |
| Issue 14 | 1996 |
| A. Lloyd-Hughes | The Tauroctonous God: who on earth? |
| W. Flood & G. Brownsword | Book Review: Rambling on Roman Roads |
| S. Foss | The Calf Path |
| G. Stobbs | Coastal Defences |
| G. Brownsword | TimeQuest: the Barbour Archaeology Resource Centre |
| R. Oram | A trip to Tir Nan Og |
| A. T. Croom | Food & Drink: The Banquet |
| M. E. Snape | Arbeia Interview: Jane Miller |
| J. McKelvey | Excavations at Arbeia 1995-6 |
| A. T. Croom | Finds Spot: The Museum |
| W. B. Griffiths | Some nails from Roman Scotland |
| Issue 13 | 1996 |
| S. Speak | Aerial photography |
| M. E. Snape | Arbeia Interview: Clive Hart |
| S. Brown | Book Review: Archaeology – an Introduction |
| R. Oram | ‘Salus Republicae’ |
| S. Speak | From our Roman Correspondent |
| A. Lloyd-Hughes | What’s up, Doc? |
| A. T. Croom | Finds Spot: stamps & graffiti |
| A. T. Croom | Food & Drink: cheese & pickles |
| M. E. Snape | Surveying at Corbridge: Introduction |
| G. Foley | Surveying at Corbridge: Survey of the southern abutment of the Roman bridge at Corbridge |
| G. Stobbs | Surveying at Corbridge: Ground survey at Corbridge |
| Issue 12 | 1995 |
| A. T. Croom | Finds Spot: The Museum Grave Display |
| A. T. Croom | Food & Drink: Bread |
| A. Lloyd-Hughes | Gilding the Lily |
| W. B. Griffiths | What is an Archaeologist? |
| J. McKelvey | Windmills & Watermills |
| A. Dunn | Local Mining |
| M. E. Snape | Arbeia Interview: A. Bell & V. Douglass |
| R. Oram | The Cauld Lad |
| P. T. Bidwell | Roman Barracks |
| R. Oram | A Pig’s Ear View |
| Issue 11 | 1995 |
| Aur. Germanus (aka P. Clark)” | “What I did on my Holidays |
| J. Reay | Robert Blair, MA, FSA |
| Ael, Fortunatus | Food & Drink: Hare & Rabbit |
| A. T. Croom | Finds Spot: Tooth Amulets |
| J. Jackson | The Coastal Geology & Palaeontology of Tyneside |
| R. Oram | A Pig’s Ear View |
| W. B. Griffiths | Reconstructing Hadrian’s Wall |
| N. Hodgson | A Day in the Life of the Commanding Officer’s House at South Shields Roman Fort |
| S. Speak | ‘aaaaand… ACTION!’ The Making of the Time Team II Programme at Hylton Castle |
| M. E. Snape | Arbeia Interview: A. T. Croom |
| Obituary: Raymond Hutchinson | |
| Issue 10 | 1994 |
| M. E. Snape | The Roman Cemeteries at Arbeia |
| P. Younger | What Wallsend & South Shields Forts Stand on |
| M. Hoyle | Arbeia in the News |
| M. E. Snape | Arbeia Interview: Mrs. Evelyn Waugh Almond |
| R. Oram | What Ho! Toucan’s Tales |
| A. Fortunatus | Food & Drink: Fish |
| C. Lloyd | Inspired by the Muse |
| W. B. Griffiths | The Fabric of History: The Rose Line Building |
| A. T. Croom | Finds Spot: Intaglios |
| P. Stokes | Butchery Practices at Roman Arbeia |
| C. R. Hart | A Bronze Age Find |
| Issue 9 | 1994 |
| N. Hodgson | A decade of Excavation at South Shields 1984-1994 |
| P. Bidwell | The 1875 Excavations at South Shields |
| J. W. Thornborrow | South Shields Archaeological and Historical Society |
| J. Reay | The Reverend Robert Eli Hooppell MA LLD FRAS |
| W. B. Griffiths | TWM to the Rescue |
| R. Oram | How Pieces of the Past Survive |
| M. E. Snape | Arbeia Interview: C Lloyd |
| S. Speak | The Mounthooly Project |
| A. T. Croom | Finds Spot: Identification |
| Issue 8 | 1994 |
| N. Hodgson | Earthwatch 1993 & the Prehistoric Settlement they Helped to Uncover |
| V. Douglass | The Fort in Flower |
| A. T. Croom | Finds Spot: Jet & Amber |
| M. E. Snape | Arbeia Interview: K. McQueen & F. Beavers |
| R. Oram | How to Identify Archaeologists |
| J. Mahavier &G. Foley | Poems |
| B. Whitaker | Summer 1915 |
| C. Lloyd | The Young Archaeologists’ Club |
| Issue 7 | 1993 |
| N. Hodgson | South Shields & the End of Hadrian’s Wall |
| W. B. Griffiths | A Guide to the Types of Unit in the Roman Army |
| M. E. Snape | Arbeia Interview: Paul Bidwell |
| R. Oram | Roman Remnants: Fashion |
| A. T. Croom | Roman Calendars |
| S. Speak | The Roman Garden at South Shields |
| A. T. Croom &M. E. Snape | Finds Spot: 2 Recently Discovered Enamelled Objects |
| Issue 6 | 1992 |
| S. Speak | Digging Without Digging |
| W. B. Griffiths | Excavations at Chesters Roman Bridge 1990-1 |
| G. Foley | Pictures of the Past |
| W. B. Griffiths | The Segedunum Hadrian’s Wall Project |
| P. T. Bidwell | A Different Design for the Late Fort at South Shields |
| C. Lloyd | Schools invade Arbeia! |
| R. Oram | A Romance |
| A. T. Croom | Finds Spot: Sculpture on Altars |
| C. R. Hart | A Miniature Altar |
| M. E. Snape | Arbeia Interview: Steve Speak |
| C. Lloyd | Children at the Fort |
| Issue 5 | 1992 |
| N. Hodgson | The 1991 Summer Excavation Campaign at Arbeia |
| W. B. Griffiths | Roman Board Games |
| R. Oram | What the Butler Saw |
| C. R. Hart | The Barbarians |
| S. Speak | The Monastery of Abbot Utta, Gateshead |
| M. E. Snape | Roman Brooches |
| A. T. Croom | Finds Spot: Military Equipment |
| M. E. Snape | Archaeological Training at the Fort |
| Issue 4 | 1991 |
| N. Hodgson | Latest Excavations at South Shields: the Commanding Officer’s Bath-suite |
| W. B. Griffiths | Metal Detectors – Useful Tools or Dangerous Weapons? |
| M. E. Snape | Peoples of the Past |
| A. T. Croom | Finds Spot: Regina Tombstone |
| R. Oram | Professor Fishhead Informs: the Auxiliary Soldier |
| J. R. Howie | The Skill of a Tour Guide |
| N. Holbrook | Excavations outside the South Gate of Segedunum Roman Fort, Wallsend, 1991 |
| N. Holbrook | Excavations at Chesters Roman Site, Hadrian’s Wall, 1991: A Preliminary Note |
| S. Speak | Bede’s Monastery at Jarrow |
| K. Wolfshead | ET at the Roman Fort |
| A. T. Croom | Re-enacting the Past |
| Issue 3 | 1991 |
| N. Hodgson | The Newly-Discovered Headquarters Building |
| A. T. Croom | Finds Spot: Worked Bone & Antler |
| W. B. Griffiths | The Tyne Shield Boss |
| R. Oram | The Sandfort Building |
| M. E. Snape | The Defensive Ditches at South Shields |
| N. Hodgson | New Light on the Early Garrison of the Supply Base |
| L. Bailey | Foreign Feet on South Shields Soil AD 1990 |
| R. Oram | Other Sites Undertaken from the South Shields Base 3 |
| Issue 2 | 1990 |
| N. Hodgson | Life in the Barracks |
| P. T. Bidwell | The Setting of South Shields |
| N. Holbrook | An Exotic Roman House at Arbeia |
| R. Oram | Professor Fishhead Informs: Archaeological Sites |
| A. T. Croom | Finds Spot: The Decorated Sword |
| S. Speak | A Gold Ring from the Fort |
| R. Oram | Other Sites Undertaken from the South Shields Base 2 |
| S. Speak | Excavations at Crompton Eternacell |
| Issue 1 | 1990 |
| S. Speak | The Changes Made to South Shields Fort in Roman Times |
| A. T. Croom | The Discovery and Excavation of the Fort |
| R. Oram | The Progress of an Excavation |
| N. Hodgson | A Recent & Unusual Feature Excavated |
| R. Oram | Other Sites Undertaken from the South Shields Base |
| A. T. Croom | Finds Spot: Samples |
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