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Current Archaeology 416 – ON SALE NOW. Children often leave only faint traces in the archaeological record, so it is always exciting to be able to piece together their experiences in the past. Our cover feature visits Sutton House in Hackney, once a 17th-century girls’ school, where delicate scraps of paper have offered unique insights into ...
Exploring Anglo-Saxon Settlement - Current Archaeology
Jun 5, 2014 · This large area of mid to late Anglo-Saxon settlement near Ely, Cambridgeshire, excavated by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit and published by Richard Mortimer, Roderick Regan, and Sam Lucy, is already well known. Further work by Northamptonshire Archaeology has shown just how large the 8th- to 9th-century settled area was, extending for ...
Time to axe the Anglo-Saxons? - Current Archaeology
Sep 25, 2019 · Instead of the period’s current tripartite division into early, middle, and late Anglo-Saxon, she suggests the adoption of such terms as ‘late antique’ (AD 400-650), ‘early medieval’ (AD 650-850), and ‘pre-Conquest’ (AD 850-1100). Susan offers an alternative analysis based on the proposition that the stability of the agricultural ...
Current Archaeology 406 - Current Archaeology
Dec 7, 2023 · Current Archaeology 406. December 7, 2023. 2 mins read. This month’s cover story takes us 32m below the waves off the Sussex coast. There, a previously enigmatic wreck has been named as the Klein Hollandia, a Dutch warship that sank in 1672 following an attack that helped to spark the Third Anglo-Dutch War. We piece together the ...
Great Ryburgh: A remarkable Anglo-Saxon cemetery revealed
Dec 1, 2016 · Overlooking the MOLA excavations at Great Ryburgh. (Photo: MOLA) Archaeological work beside the River Wensum in Norfolk has revealed more than 80 rare Middle Saxon log coffins and plank-lined graves, preserved by their waterlogged environment – the first time that such coffins have been found in these numbers and such good condition in Britain.
Blick Mead - Current Archaeology
Feb 1, 2017 · This terrace area was the source of over half our 5th millennium BC radiocarbon dates. Spanning c.4236-4041 BC, they make Blick Mead one of the latest Mesolithic sites in England – but, arguably more importantly still, they also bring the transition from Mesolithic hunter-gatherer to Neolithic farming culture into a human scale and personal ...
News Archives - Current Archaeology
Northamptonshire’s largest Anglo-Saxon cemetery discovered. A large Anglo-Saxon cemetery has recently been discovered at Overstone in Northamptonshire. With 154 interments, it is the largest burial ground from…. News.
Current Archaeology 400 - Current Archaeology
Jun 1, 2023 · Current Archaeology 400. June 1, 2023. 3 mins read. When I joined Current Archaeology (as Editorial Assistant) in 2011, the first issue I worked on was CA 259. I can’t decide whether I am more flabbergasted that that was 12 years ago, or that we are now publishing CA 400. It has been such a joy and a privilege to contribute to the intervening ...
Excavating 400 issues of Current Archaeology
Jun 1, 2023 · The first issue of Current Archaeology was published in 1967, a time when archaeology was just still in its early days of professionalisation. To help mark the milestone of Current Archaeology 400, editor Carly asked me to delve into the archives for a bumper edition of my column, in order to tell the story of archaeology in the UK across the ...
Current Archaeology 360 - Current Archaeology
Current Archaeology 360. February 6, 2020. 2 mins read. North of Inverness lies the evocatively named ‘Black Isle’ – a fertile peninsula that has hosted human activity for 10,000 years. Since 2017, community excavations have uncovered a wealth of finds from rare Mesolithic antler objects to a monumental Pictish barrow cemetery.