On an American air base at Lakenheath in Suffolk, they decided to give up baseball pitch number 1 in favour new dormitory accommodation. Then the archaeologists moved in, and discovered that under the baseball pitch was an Anglo-Saxon cemetery with a spectacular burial of a warrior and his horse. The discovery was widely publicised in the press, but now we have the full story not only of the horse burial, but also of the other 200 burials that lay under the baseball pitch.

South Cadbury hillfort is a magic name to the older generation of archaeologists. "By south Cadbury is that Camelot" wrote Leland in the 16th century, and the discovery of 'Dark Age' activity gave strength to the Arthurian legend. But what was life like for the peasants who lived around the hillfort? In a corner of a field, the Cadbury Environs Survey recently discovered an unexpected Bronze Age shield . . .

Boats in a coal mine? At the St Aidans Project, near Pontefract, large scale opencast coalmining is digging away the old channel of the River Aire, and here an old mill, dry docks, as well as a number of river boats have recently been uncovered.

Aves Ditch, in North Oxfordshire is a forgotten monument. Here a bank and ditch run dead straight for three miles, but what date is it? The Oxford University Archaeological Society has recently been investigating, and has produced some unexpected results.