Recent excavations on the Gwent Levels, in the wetlands of the Severn Estuary, south Wales, have recovered substantial remains of a waterlogged boat, of probable late 3rd- to early 4th-century AD date.

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The salvage excavation on the gas-pipe trench was directed by J. David Zienkiewicz for the National Museum of Wales and the Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust. The main excavations were directed by Dr Edith Evans and D.J. Maynard for the GGAT in association with the National Museum of Wales, following the topsoil strip which was undertaken under the direction of Gareth Dowdell of GGAT. The excavation of the burials was supervised by Joyce Compton (GGAT). Salvage excavations during the construction of the building were directed by Dr Edith Evans. On-site finds processing was supervised by Susan Fox (NMW). The drawings were prepared by Mary Anne Constance (NMW), Paul Jones (GGAT), Mariangela Pambianchi (GGAT), and Chris Seabright (GGAT). Thanks are due to Mrs G.

The SCPX pipeline, completed in 2018, follows the line of the earlier BTC and SCP pipelines across Azerbaijan towards Georgia. The project included an archaeological programme that supplemented the discoveries of the earlier two projects. The results were very similar, but were significantly different from the earlier work. The SCPX work was carried out on 48 locations using a team of national and international archaeologists. Chalcolithic material was again found at Poylu, Xocaxan and Aılı Dərə. The Kura Araz culture of the early Bronze Age was indicated with burials at Soyuqbulaq and Tovuzçay. The Xocalı-Gədəbəy culture of the late Bronze Age early Iron Age is well represented with a cemetery found at Tovuzçay II and the kurgans at Borsunlu Camp. Antique period jar grave cemeteries were found in the Yevlax area at Əmirarx, Bəyimsarov, Səmədabad and Yaldili. Medieval settlement sites were excavated at Əmirarx, Faxrali, Lək and Hacialili. The major discovery of the project was the medieval castle at Kərpiclitəpə. This was a rectangular structure with towers at each corner and evidence of occupation that probably ended with the Mongol invasion. The report is structured as an introduction to the project, with a brief summary of excavations. The detail for each site can be accessed in the report by links to the archive on the ADS website in a similar form to the BTC/SCP project report. The reader can thus access all the information for each site together with detailed analysis of radiocarbon and other analyses of the sites for all the work in that area from the various projects. Taken as a whole, the work on the three projects provides a means to comprehend part of the very broad early history of northwest Azerbaijan.

Previous work U sk (Burrium) 1 has long been considered a Roman site. 2 Its identification as a pre-Flavian military site was made by Boon, 3 following his reassessment of material recovered in the nineteenth century. 4 Subsequently a series of excavations was undertaken between 1965 and 1976 by Professor W.H. Manning on behalf of University College, Cardiff and the Department of the Environment (later the Ancient Monuments Branch of the Welsh Office). 5 Since 1975 work in Usk has been carried out by the Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust. 6 Site location and assessment An opportunity to undertake further excavations in the vicinity of the fortress occurred as the result of a proposal by Dwr Cymru Cyf (Welsh Water) to replace a sewage main between the Pumping Station at Usk, Gwent (NGR SO 3781 0028) and the Sewage Treatment Works south of Craig Olway (NGR ST 3875 9950). Consultation with the Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust's Curatorial Section established that the northern part of the proposed pipeline route would cross the assumed line of the road approaching the portapraetoria, before turning westwards to cross the modern Usk-Llanllowell minor road and then run parallel to the presumed position of the southern defences of the fortress 7 across Usk Cricket Ground as far as the pumping station, which lies on the defences. As engineering considerations prevented the route being diverted to follow the Usk-Llanllowell road, an evaluation programme was devised to assess the archaeological impact of the development. This consisted of a geophysical survey in the Cricket Ground, 8 and five evaluation trenches 9 cut within the proposed pipeline easement in OS Fields 0011, 0020, and 0033. The geophysical survey indicated that there were unlikely to be significant remains immediately outside the postulated line of the outer southern ditch of the fortress. The 1