Excavating Lincolnshire

I head east, in this column, to Lincolnshire and the origins of Current Archaeology. The Welland River Project featured in no less an issue than CA 1, back in March 1967, and was also the first fieldwork mentioned by the magazine, following directly on from the introductory editorial. The magazine thus began its now 54-year (and counting) run by diving headfirst into the Fens, examining work undertaken there between 1962 and 1966 that produced a great panorama of prehistoric, Roman, and early medieval settlements. CA returned to this area in issue 160 (November 1998), when regular contributor Francis Pryor wrote of his work at Welland Bank Quarry, a spectacular multi-period prehistoric site