Description
In this issue:
– Bay of Skaill: Norse longhouse
– Marden Henge
– Stirling Castle
– Tollgate Farm: Roman rubbish and ritual
Plus: News, Reviews, Comment, Sherds, Odd Socs, and more!
From the Editor:
This month, our features and news stories highlight just how important advancing technology is for archaeology. Revisiting old sites, old bones, and old theories with new tools, perspectives, and practice will invariably shed a whole new light on what we thought we knew. If there is a better argument for the importance of investing in archaeological study and research, we haven’t yet heard it!
Three of our features deal with the archaeology of houses, from the plain to the palatial. The Neolithic building surface found at Marden Henge is perhaps most tantalising, both for what it might indicate is lying beneath the surface of a Wiltshire field, and for how this could change our understanding of the world famous sacred landscape nearby. What we love is the fact that Marden appeared onthe front cover of CA in 1969 (issue 17); here we are, 42 years later, and CA is going strong, Marden is going strong, and archaeology is going … well, just going. Finally, to round off the issue, we have a fantastic story from an independent society who really hit the jackpot.
Cover Date: Apr-2011, Volume 22 Issue 1