Description
In this issue:
– CELEBRATING 300 ISSUES: Andrew reminisces; Friends of CA; favourite Articles
– WHEN FRANCIS DUG THE FENS: A time teeming with innovation
– WINCHESTER UNCOVERED: Revisiting one of England’s greatest urban excavations
– A LIFE ARCHAEOLOGICAL: From Fishbourne to 40 years at Silchester
Plus: News, Reviews, Comment, Sherds, Odd Socs, and more!
From the Editor:
When I launched Current Archaeology in 1967 I never thought that we would ever reach issue 300. To my surprise, 12,000 pages and more than 1,000 articles later, issue 300 is now upon us, and so we have taken the opportunity to look back at the archaeology of these past 48 years, and to think about the future.
We begin with some reflections on the launch of CA, and recollect some of my favourite articles. We have then invited two of my fellow entrepreneurs to tell us the secrets of how they began their unexpected careers, of how David Brown started the Oxbow book-selling empire, and how Annabel Lawson set up Andante, one of archaeology’s favourite travel companies.
And then, at the heart of the magazine, three of our leading archaeologists look back at their careers. Francis Pryor tells us how he came to Peterborough, following my throwaway remark in an early issue of CA, and set about rethinking all our ideas about the Bronze Age. Martin Biddle tells us about Winchester, still probably the biggest single excavation in British archaeology. And Michael Fulford tells us how he excavated the Roman town of Silchester.
Finally may I say a big thank you to all those who have supported CA in the last 300 issues: to all those archaeologists who have told me about their excavations and discoveries; and to you, our readers. I hope to
continue to amuse, stimulate, and occasionally even to provoke you in the future, and I look forward to meeting even more of you at our conference again this year.
Andrew Selkirk
Cover Date: Mar-2015, Volume 25 Issue 12