Current Archaeology - Britain's favourite archaeology magazine
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 ...
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 ...
Peasant houses in Midland England - Current Archaeology
May 1, 2013 · Radiocarbon and tree-ring dating has now revealed that thousands of ordinary Medieval homes are still standing in the English Midlands, many incorporated into des res village houses. Chris Catling reports on how some peasants lived very well in the Middle Ages. Phoenix Cottage in Warwickshire, is a well-preserved cruck house of 1480-1482.
Peasant houses in Midland England: How the Black Death …
May 2, 2013 · It used to be thought that only high-class houses had survived from the Medieval period. Radiocarbon and tree-ring dating has now revealed that thousands of ordinary Medieval homes are still standing in the English Midlands, many now incorporated into des res village homes. Chris Catling reports on how some peasants lived very well in the Middle Ages. The term ‘peasant’ suggests poverty ...
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 ...
Sutton Hoo at the British Museum - Current Archaeology
Jun 20, 2014 · Marking the 75th anniversary of a watershed discovery. In May 1939, Suffolk archaeologist Basil Brown made a discovery that would change perceptions of Anglo-Saxon England forever: a spectacular 7th-century ship burial, overlooking the River Deben at Sutton Hoo. Seventy-five years on, its contents form the centrepiece of the British Museum’s ...
Articles Archives - Current Archaeology
Excavating the CA archives – The Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. Since CA 360 (March 2020) I have criss-crossed the United Kingdom, examining its history through the eyes of Current Archaeology. I have…. Features.
Time Team: the rise and fall of a television phenomenon
Dec 7, 2012 · In mid October 2012 an all-points bulletin was emailed to Time Team staff. It announced that after 20 seasons and over 230 episodes the programme was being axed by Channel 4. A few days later news of Time Team‘s demise broke in the Guardian. It was a perfunctory end for a television institution that, over two decades, made British archaeology more accessible and popular than ever. Here we ...
London Mithraeum: Reimagining the famous Roman temple
Dec 1, 2018 · The new reconstruction of the London Mithraeum reimagines the temple structure, immersing the visitor in Roman Britain. (PHOTO: James Newton) On 14 November, London’s Temple of Mithras – now known as the ‘London Mithraeum’ – reopened to the public as the first new interpretation of a Roman ruin in the capital for nearly 20 years.
AD 50 - The story of Roman London - Current Archaeology
May 24, 2007 · The original Roman crossing of the River Thames was further up river at Westminster: even today, the Roman road, the Watling Street – today the Edgware Road, comes into London pointing to a crossing at Westminster. London itself was only founded around AD 50 Here at Regis House, the very first revetment of the river can be seen, dated by tree ...