The latest issue of *Post-Medieval Archaeology* vol 44:1 is now out.

Contents include:


Paul Belford, Five centuries of iron working: excavations at Wednesbury 
Forge

Chris King, 'Closure' and the urban Great rebuilding in early modern Norwich

Charles Orser, Three 19th-century house sites in rural Ireland

Gordan Ewart and Dennis Gallagher, The fortifications of Fort George, 
Ardersier, near Inverness: an archaeological investigation 1990-2005.

Rainer Schreg, Pananmanian coarse handmade earthenware -- a melting pot 
of Africa, American and European traditions?

Richard Thomas, Translocated Testudinidae: the earliest archaeological 
evidence for the land tortoise in Britain

Sadie Watson and Jacqueline Pearce, Taverns and other entertainments in 
the City of London'?Seventeenth- and 18th-century finds from excavations 
inat Paternoster Square

Don Walker and Michael Henderson, Smoking and health in London's East 
End in the first half of the 19^th century

Geoff Egan, Report of the Portable Antiquities Scheme 2008


See SPMA website : http://www.spma.org.uk/


The European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH), published by the 
European Science Foundation in 2007, places /Post-Medieval Archaeology/ 
in its category 'A' : high-ranking international publications with a 
very strong reputation among researchers of the field in different 
countries, regularly cited all over the world.