Excavating the CA archive

After last month’s column on Cumbria, I now head east into neighbouring Northumberland. Current Archaeology’s coverage of the county is perplexing – plenty, of course, on ‘the Wall’ (see my own dedicated column in CA 326, May 2017, as well as the most recent ‘Hadrian’s Wall special’ in CA 388, July 2022). There are also lots of cross-references to surveys of site-types and themes, including prehistoric roundhouses (e.g. CA 222, September 2008), Vikings (e.g. CA 298, January 2015), early medieval settlements (e.g. CA 368, November 2020), and castles (e.g. CA 255, June 2011) – but not much detailed coverage in comparison to other counties. Is this because of the relative lack