Crossing to Inis Cealtra
Firsts. I first went to Inis Cealtra – Holy Island in County Clare – with my first girlfriend, Leigh, in 1973. From County Antrim, a northerner, she had an esprit de vie that I always associate, like the constant drizzle,…
research history
Excavating the CA archive
Joe Flatman explores over half a century of reports from the past.
CA 398 Letters – April
Your views on issues raised in Current Archaeology.
CA Letters 394 – December
Your views on the latest issues raised in CA.
From the Princes in the Tower to Northumbria’s Golden Age
Beneath the foundations of the staircase, the workmen found a wooden chest containing human bones and pieces of velvet. Charles II arranged for the remains to be reinterred in Westminster Abbey, but the bones were re-examined in 1933.
The Congress of Roman Frontier Studies
Discussions were prematurely halted by the receipt of a coded telegram from the War Office summoning Birley home to join Military Intelligence, to which he had previously been recruited owing to his fluent German and knowledge of the Roman army.
CWA 113 Letters – May 2022
Your observations, your objections, and your opinions: send them to cwaletters@world-archaeology.com
Tea with the junta
For some unaccountable reason, perhaps a case of mistaken identity, Polly and I were ushered into a private room to sit down to afternoon tea with the junta.