Current Archaeology - Britain's favourite archaeology magazine
WEBCurrent Archaeology 414 – ON SALE NOW. As the sun has proven somewhat unreliable this summer, let’s talk about the moon instead. Stonehenge is best known for its solar alignments, but was its design also influenced by a once-in-a-generation lunar phenomenon? This month’s cover feature discusses an ongoing project that is …
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WEBNorthamptonshire’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.
Sutton Hoo at the British Museum - Current Archaeology
WEBJun 20, 2014 · 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 recently reopened Early Medieval Europe gallery.
Resolving Repton - Current Archaeology
WEBJun 6, 2019 · In the 1970s and 1980s, investigations at Repton revealed evidence of a 9th-century Viking army camp, as well as a mass grave thought to contain their battle dead. Now new analysis and excavations have shed vivid new light on the nature of these remains, and given hints of a possible second camp nearby. Cat Jarman reports.
Leicester's Roman high life - Current Archaeology
WEBOct 6, 2017 · The largest excavation undertaken in Leicester for over a decade has shed vivid new light on the city’s early Roman history, as well as revealing evidence of luxurious dwellings, including one of the biggest fragments of mosaic floor found in the city in 150 years. Gavin Speed reports. Until recently, the block of land in central Leicester ...
The chances of surviving the Black Death - Current Archaeology
WEBMar 18, 2008 · Sharon DeWitte and James Wood of the University of Albany, New York, have examined 490 skeletons from the East Smithfield plague pit in London and found that the Black Death was selective in picking off the already frail. Lesions (damaged bone) associated with earlier episodes of infection, under-nutrition or other forms of.
Shooters Hill : Digging up Dad's Army - Current Archaeology
WEBFeb 5, 2009 · Shooters Hill : Digging up Dad's Army. February 5, 2009. 2 mins read. Conflict archaeology — the archaeology of communities preparing for, or involved in, military or civil strife — is a relatively new discipline, asking questions about the physical and cultural landscapes of wartime Britain. In this light, the order quoted above becomes a ...
Fishbourne at 50: Celebrating half a century at a unique Roman …
WEBJun 7, 2018 · The Fishbourne excavations of 1961-1969 uncovered the remains of an impressive Roman palace, adorned with elaborate mosaics. (ALL IMAGES: Fishbourne Roman Palace / Sussex Archaeological Society) This month marks 50 years since Fishbourne Roman Palace, one of the great archaeological discoveries of the 1960s, opened its doors to the public.
Peasant houses in Midland England: How the Black Death …
WEBMay 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 ...
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