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If you are interested in Roman mosaics, then this issue of CA will be something of a treat for you! Three of this month’s ...
This month’s column comprises the latest in visited Chester and Colchester, and next up is Cirencester (Corinium). While not ...
CA 60 (February 1978) saw the first formal visit to Offa’s Dyke, reporting on work begun in 1972 by a team from Manchester University who, given the paucity of information available about it at the ...
To commence with Dover, CA 25 (March 1971), CA 38 (May1973), and CA 57 (July 1977) set the scene of discovery across the 1960 and 1970s, the heyday of the ‘rescue’ movement, when archaeological sites ...
Excavating around Salisbury Plain Last month I began a tour around the final county of the UK that I had yet to visit in these pages: Wiltshire. I began in the north and headed south as far as the ...
The county of Gloucestershire encompasses a wide variety of landscapes, from the mix of urban and traditional farming communities (now more often dormitory settlements) in the south, by way of the ...
The archaeology of Llanddwyn Island Located off the south coast of Ynys Môn (Anglesey), Llanddwyn Island was home to a small monastic community for more than 1,000 years. Now a decade of ...
For this third section of my Scottish travels on behalf of Current Archaeology, I head north and west – up and across into the Highlands. As noted previously, these columns on Scotland are dedicated ...
HERE BE DRAGONS: THE LEGO THAT GOT LOST Tracey’s book is one that I would recommend everyone should read. As I commented in my review, this is a story of citizen-science of the best type, well written ...
The Viking-induced downfall of Iona is what we call a ‘zombie narrative’, the kind of revenant story that continues to rise from the dead every time it is laid to rest. Not only does it refuse to die, ...
Conserving Britain’s biggest Iron Age hoard This photo shows just a portion of Le Câtillon II, the largest coin hoard yet found in the British Isles, which was discovered in Jersey in 2012. As well as ...