One of the joys of the Current Archaeology archive is its ‘tales of the unexpected’. After last month’s column on early medieval…
In my second column on the archaeology of Greater London, I stroll through the Saxon town, meander through the medieval city, and…
My final geographically themed review focuses on London. I touched on some sites there in my reviews of Roman archaeology and the…
Since CA 360 (March 2020) I have criss-crossed the United Kingdom, examining its history through the eyes of Current Archaeology. I have…
I concluded last month’s column just east of Avebury at the Sanctuary, a Neolithic and Bronze Age site that is also the…
After last month’s scramble through Stonehenge, this month I turn north to amble around Avebury. I know I am not the only…
Submitted by Paul Townson I would like to preface this text by saying that I am an English teacher and am in…
Stonehenge In my columns to date I have barely mentioned Stonehenge. This is deliberate; for all that I love archaeology I am…
Excavating around Salisbury Plain Last month I began a tour around the final county of the UK that I had yet to…
I have now examined the archaeology of every county in Britain bar one – Wiltshire. This was no accident, for I have…
The county of Gloucestershire encompasses a wide variety of landscapes, from the mix of urban and traditional farming communities (now more often…