Excavating Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire

This is now my 25th ‘county’ column exploring the history of Current Archaeology, and within it I visit the neighbouring counties of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. I mean no offence to either county with this double-headed approach: the sad reality is that neither have featured very much in the 55 years of the magazine, so there aren’t enough articles on either county to fill a full column. I’d urge archaeologists working in both locations to redress this balance in the future, submitting articles to the magazine [Ed: yes, please!], as what does feature in the pages of CA from these counties is great work indeed. Bravo for Bedfordshire Beginning with Bedfordshire, the earlie