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Current Archaeology 417 – ON SALE NOW. It is not often that we at CA get to write about far-flung finds from such countries as Korea, Sweden, and Syria (though we love reading about them in the pages of our sister-magazine Current World Archaeology). However, in this month’s cover feature, which draws on the British Museum’s new….
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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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Life beside the lake - Current Archaeology
Mar 11, 2019 · Around 11,000 years ago, the banks of Lake Flixton were part of a rapidly changing world. This was just four centuries into the Holocene, the geological warm period in which we still live today, whose advent at the end of the last Ice Age heralded a sudden rise in global temperatures. On a more local scale, the area of North Yorkshire now known ...
How did Christianity come to England? - Current Archaeology
Jan 12, 2018 · The official story as recorded in Bede is that the Pope sent Saint Augustine to England in 597 to convert the pagans. However I went to a very interesting lecture at the Hendon and District Archaeological Society when Chris Scull put forward a very subversive alternative scenario. Chris is leading the team who are writing up the very rich Anglo-Saxon burial discovered at Prittlewell, in Essex ...
Current Archaeology Live! 2025
Current Archaeology Awards. The annual Current Archaeology Awards celebrate the projects and publications that made the pages of the magazine over the past 12 months, and the people judged to have made outstanding contributions to archaeology.. These awards are voted for entirely by the public – there are no panels of judges – so we encourage you to get involved and choose the projects ...