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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 …
How did Christianity come to England? - Current Archaeology
WEBJan 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 ...
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.
Life beside the lake - Current Archaeology
WEBMar 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 …
Peasant houses in Midland England - Current Archaeology
WEBMay 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 …
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.
News Archives - Current Archaeology
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: field of kings - Current Archaeology
WEBOct 1, 2010 · Sutton Hoo: field of kings. October 1, 2010. 6 mins read. This was no ordinary burial. The group that gathered on a grassy promontory overlooking the River Deben around AD 625 was participating in a ceremony that is without equal in Britain. First a huge vessel, 27m long and honourably scarred and patched through …
AD 700 - Sutton Hoo - Current Archaeology
WEBAD 700 – Sutton Hoo. May 24, 2007. 8 mins read. In the 7th century AD, a King – it was surely no less – received a magnificent burial at Sutton Hoo, in East Anglia. A ship was hauled up from the river, a burial chamber was erected in the middle of it, and a stupendous collection of magnificent objects – gold and silver brooches and ...
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.