'Missing soul' of Milton Keynes put in storage

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The building of the new city of Milton Keynes involved 47 archaeological excavations over 20 years which produced 200,000 finds, but there is no museum in which to display them. Treasures such as Anglo-Saxon gold work. Roman glass work and Stone Age weapons are going into storage. The archaeological sites were not included in the town planning and have mostly been destroyed, and Buckinghamshire County Council's long-term plan for a museum for Milton Keynes may be abandoned. There is no county archaeological museum and the county museum in Aylesbury will be closed for repairs until 1994, so Milton Keynes artefacts will be inaccessible to the public.

Museums, Art museums, Archaeology, Antiquities, Milton Keynes, England

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Stafford Cottman

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Trade unionist and political activist Stafford Cottman joined the Young Communist League at around the time of the death of his father in 1935. He was the youngest volunteer in the Independent Labour Party contingent which left for Spain in 1936, fighting with a unit of the POUM. On his return, he worked for the Independent Labour Party in London, England. In 1940, he joined Bomber Command as a rear gunner. He joined the British Overseas Airways Corp as a clerk in 1946, and at around the same time joined the Labour Party and became very involved in trade-union work.

United Kingdom, Obituary, Political activists, Activists, Cottman, Stafford Leslie Charles

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Charred remains hold clues to a Celtic collaborator

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Archaeologists at St Albans, Hertfordshire, England have investigated a royal burial site where the celtic King Adminius was buried. Research shows he was probably a collaborator with the Romans. His possessions were burnt with him. Investigators examined the remains in the Verulamium Museum, St Albans. They found silverware, a chain-mail tunic and a 30-piece Roman dinner service dated between AD45 and AD50. A Romano-Celtic temple was built on the site of the funeral pyre.

Research, Discovery and exploration, England, Historic sites, Romans, Archaeological dating, Saint Albans, England, Celtic antiquities, Adminius

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