Excavating the CA archive: Yorkshire 2

Joe Flatman explores half a century of reports from the past.
January 7, 2021
In my previous column (CA 370), I examined Yorkshire’s prehistoric archaeology. This month, I am moving forward chronologically to explore the Roman, Viking and Anglo-Saxon, late medieval, and modern archaeology of this region’s four counties. This is ground that I have covered in part before, in reviews of CA’s coverage of Viking Jorvik (CA 341, August 2018) and medieval Wharram Percy (CA 340, July 2018), but there are many other treasures to be found across the counties too. Dug in deep in Roman Britain Examining CA’s coverage of Roman Yorkshire over the years is the simplest of tasks: one begins at the beginning, with CA 1 (March 1967), which featured Rudston Roman Villa in

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