The 1-3% detection rates of three recently published series have not been realized at our center where we studied a group using criteria making patients more likely to have hypercortisolism. Our results do not support the validity of screening patients without clinical features of Cushing's syndrome in the diabetes clinic.

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Re-examination of St-Brieuc andWilburton metalworking shows they cannot align, and this requires a general reordering of the Atlantic Late Bronze Age sequence. They have many differences, principally sword types. St-Brieuc always has U-butt Kerguérou (Limehouse in Britain) swords, whereas Wilburton always has Wilburton swords. Wilburton must follow St-Brieuc, so a new Limehouse stage is inserted between Penard and Wilburton, to align with St-Brieuc. The combination of U-butt sword and straight-mouthed chape of St-Brieuc and Limehouse is consistent throughout Atlantic Europe. So too are the characteristics of Wilburton metalworking which followed, and its Brécy equivalent in France. In Britain the contemporaneity of Wallington and Wilburton is reaffirmed. Both played a part in the emergence of Ewart Park 1 metalworking, with South Yorkshire/Lincolnshire a vital contact zone. The Atlantic Late Bronze Age unrav elled after Wilburton. Iberia effectively dropped out after Huelva, diverted by Phoenician influ ences. Links between Britain and Atlantic France declined, and their sword and axe prefer ences diverged. The various weapon complexes of Ewart Park 1 in Britain have no equivalents in France. Ordering and sub-dividing this final phase of the LBA has always been imponderable but has been helped by the identification of St-Philbert (Huelva) swords, which show what are Ewart Park 1 hoards in Britain and contemporary Longueville hoards in France. They also make clear that the Carp's tongue complex must be relegated to the last part of the Late Bronze Age.As in earlier periods, events in the south-east can be paralleled in north-western France, where the Wilburton Complex has its counterpart in Briard's St-Brieuc-des-Iffs group . . . One difference should be noted, and that is the continuing presence in the French hoards of the U-shouldered swords . . . In England the V-shouldered [Wilburton] weapons are entirely domi nant in the Wilburton hoards. (Burgess 1968a, 9, 13) British Wilburton swords and French Atlantic leaf-shaped swords belong to the same tradition . . . However, the two groups are not identical. (O'Connor 1980, 146) [U-butt swords] are not present in Wilburton hoards in Britain, although their French counterparts frequently occur in Saint-Brieuc-des-Iffs hoards . . . (Colquhoun and Burgess 1988, 35) Downloaded by [University of Arizona] at 12:58 06 June 2016 PREAMBLE Atlantic Europe in this Bronze Age context consists of the Atlantic littoral of western Europe, beginning in the north with Britain, Ireland and northern France (from Picardy southwards), takes in Normandy, Brittany and the Paris Basin, western France, and then Portugal and Spain. Its influence did not extend normally east of Paris or north of the Belgian border, areas which looked more to central Europe, and in the case of the Low Countries, often to northern Europe. The Balearic Isles, distant in the western Mediterranean, not surprisingly fell outside the Atlantic orbit, though more distant but more accessible Sardinia was heavil...

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