Description
In this issue:
– RETURN TO STAR CARR: Discovering the true size of a Mesolithic settlement
– TIME HEALS: Digging Caerwent with Operation Nightingale
– BIRLEY FIELDS: The archaeology and history of Victorian streetscapes
– MICK ASTON: 1946-2013: A tribute
Plus: News, Reviews, Comment, Sherds, Odd Socs, and more!
From the Editor:
Mick Aston passed away on 24 June. His passion for archaeology inspired countless Time Team viewers to follow in his footsteps, including me. Mick was a long-standing friend of CA, and we were looking forward to following his fieldwork exploits in Winscombe for many years to come. But it was not to be.
In an extended tribute, we remember Mick in his own words and those of his Time Team friends. He shares a final piece of advice in his column, while some previously unpublished extracts from a 2012 interview provide some gems from his archaeological journey. Andrew Selkirk and I were invited down to Mick’s Somerset home for that interview. It was the only occasion when I was lucky enough to meet Mick, but recollections from people who knew him well, of a welcoming, modest, and encouraging man mirror my experience. Generous with his time, that day in Somerset was a wonderful experience for someone who had grown up watching Mick on television.
Elsewhere in this issue we learn how recent research has revealed that Mesolithic settlement at Star Carr was far larger than initially suspected. What does this mean for our view of highly mobile hunter-gatherer groups? Operation Nightingale has been set up to teach archaeology to soldiers recovering from injuries; read about their investigation of a mysterious building overlooking the Roman town at Caerwent. Finally, excavations in Manchester have shown how industrialisation saw green fields overrun with cramped ranks of housing. Discovery how the lost streets of Hulme returned to the heart of a community.
Cover Date: Sep-2013, Volume 24 Issue 6