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Excavating the CA archive
Joe Flatman explores over half a century of reports from the past.
After a brief pause for last month’s celebrations surrounding CA 400, I will now return to my ‘county’ theme, this time exploring Cumbria. In 2010, Rory Stewart – who was at the time the MP for Penrith and The Border – got into trouble when he was quoted as saying that ‘some areas around here are pretty primitive, people holding up their trousers with bits of twine…’. In his defence, Stewart clarified that he was highlighting local rural poverty, not commenting on the individuals who live there. But as an avowed fan of all things archaeological, he will hopefully be delighted by the riches that I am going to uncover in this month’s column on the county. Cumbria’s uplands,
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