Excavations at East Winch on the Greensand Belt in north-west Norfolk, revealed a Romano-British pottery production site - part of the Nar Valley industry - as well as more limited evidence of iron smelting and possible habitation. The principal features were a trackway, potentially linking the site to the nearby iron smelting site at Ashwicken, and part of a ditched enclosure containing an aisled building, a stone-founded workshop, four Nar Valley kilns and a drying oven. The pottery assemblage adds considerably to our understanding of this industry. Of principal importance is the occurrence within the pottery assemblage of tightly dated imports which assist in developing a chronology for the Nar Valley industry. Archaeomagnetic dating of one of the kilns indicated a last firing at some point between AD 200 and 250. A decline in pottery production in the later Roman period seems to have coincided with a renewed emphasis on iron smelting nearby and the disposal of quantities of tap slag on site.

Updated papers presented at the infancy and childhood conference at the University of Kent in 2005. From this conference the new Society - the Study of Childhood in the Past (SSCIP) emerged. Contents: 1) The Osteology of Infancy and Childhood: Misconceptions and potential (Mary Lewis); 2) Subadult or Subaltern? Children as serial categories (Frederik Fahlander); 3) Etruscan Infants: Children's cemeteries at Tarquinia, Italy, as indicators of an age of transition (Marshall J. Becker); 4) Thrown Out with the Bathwater or Properly Buried? Neonate and infant skeletons in a settlement context on the Durrnberg bei Hallein, Austria (Raimund Karl and Klaus Locker); 5) The Children in the Bog (Grete Lillehammer); 6) Parenting, Childloss and the Cillini of post-Medieval Ireland (Eileen Murphy); 7) The Disposal of Dead Infants in Anglo-Saxon England from c.500-1066: An overview (Sally Crawford); 8) Where Have All The Flowers Gone? Bronze Age children's burials in south-east England: Initial thoughts (Dawn McClaren); 9) Ble Mae'r Babanod? Infant burial in early Medieval Wales (Marion R. Page); 10) Childhood in Roman Egypt: Bioarchaeology of the Kellis 2 cemetery, Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt (Sandra M. Wheeler et al); 11) Constituting Childhood"