Highlights of British Archaeology

Take a special cyber tour!

• The Origins of the English Village
  When was the 'typical' English village founded? Professor Mick Aston (of 'Time Team' fame) has been investigating the village of Shapwick, in Somerset.

• Castles in Wales
  What happened when the English conquered the Welsh in 1283? A look at two contrasting castles, one of the Welsh princes, the other of the English invaders.

• Crossing the Atlantic
  In the Outer Hebrides, the Flora MacDonald project is exploring a village abandoned when the inhabitants set out for a new life in the New World.

• Highlights of amateur archaeology
  What are the best achievements of amateur archaeology? Here we present the work of the winners of the Pitt Rivers Award for the best amateur archaeology: a bastle and fermtoun at Glenochar in south-west Scotland, magnificent Newark Castle, and a Roman barn at Littlehay.

Tour round these major sites

• The Dover Boat
  A Bronze Age boat - an early cross-channel ferry?
  
• The Eton Boating Lake
  The earliest bridge across the River Thames
  
• Snettisham
  A rich hoard of gold and silver - the regalia of the Iceni?
  
• Rich Iron Age burial at Colchester
  Native princes buried in splendour at Colchester
  
• Arbeia Roman fort
  What happened when the Tigris boatmen were transferred to the northern frontier of the Roman empire
  
• Canterbury Cathedral
  Were the Normans better builders than the Anglo-Saxons?
  
• The Hebrides: Special issue
  The Hebrides are home to many exotic forms of architecture, such as brochs, and wheelhouses. We look at brochs on the Valtos peninsula, and then take a detailed look at the Udal, where a village grew on its mound like a near Eastern tell, and continued down into the 18th century.
  
• Feet!
  Is it possible to distinguish between Celtic and Anglo-Saxon skeletons from their feet?
  

Recent issues: summaries

• CA 147: The Hebrides
  
• CA 148: The Clava Cairns, The Eton Boating lake, Catterick Roman amphitheatre, and Witham monastery and country house
  
• CA 149: The West Runton elephant, Barking Abbey, Stirrup mounts, the Magor Pill Boat, the Oldest Bow, and The Defence of Britain.
  
• CA150: Special Welsh issue: Rhosyr and Conwy Castle
  
• CA 151: The Origins of the English village (Shapwick) and Monkton.
  CA 152 From brochs to the Highland Clearances: The Archaeology of South Uist, in the Hebrides.
  
• CA153: Boxgrove, Vindolanda and Colchester
  
• CA 154 The Dorchester aqueduct, Orkney round-up, The Pioneer Saxon Helmet, The Tower of London, and The Archaeology of the Beatles
  
• CA 155 : The Cramond Lioness, Explaining medieval Northampton, The Kirkdale Minster church, and roundup of excavations in 1997
  
• CA156 Amateur issue: Glenochar bastle and fermtoun, Littlehay Roman barn, Footloose in archaeology, Newark Castle, Mid-sussex field Team, The Cerne Giant, and Botel Bailey medieval castle
  
• CA157 Roman Mosaics, Alchester, and the Battle of the River Medway
  
• CA 158: Special London issue: Roman, Saxon and Medieval
• CA 159 King Arthur at Tintagel? An Iron Age witch at Brackmills, the Roman road at Birdlip, Carrickfergus castle in Northern Ireland, and a New Look at medieval Shrewsbury

Try some of these earlier features

• Current Archaeology, 1994 to 1996: a period by period summary

• Book Reviews . How does Current Archaeology rate the latest books on archaeology?

• The Index: an index of all the articles since 1967