Current Archaeology 383

In this issue:

– Excavating Achilles: uncovering scenes of the Trojan War in Rutland
– Lost and found: wall paintings and rood-screens in Welsh churches
– The Wall ‘warrior’: exploring African identities in Roman Britain
– Reconstructing the Dunch Hill roundhouse
– From West Africa to Wisbech: analysing an abolitionist’s campaign chest

Plus: News, Reviews, Science Notes, Museum News, Current Archaeology Awards, Sherds, and more!

Cover Date: Feb-22, Volume 32 Issue 11Postage Information: UK - free, Rest of World - Add £2

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This month’s cover showcases a spectacular Roman mosaic unearthed in Rutland, its colourful imagery preserving vivid scenes from the story of the Trojan War. The mosaic echoes episodes from Homer’s Iliad, but with idiosyncratic elements. Our special report asks: what can it tell us about the transmission of Classical literature in Roman Britain?

Remaining in Britannia, our first feature heads west to Wall, in Staffordshire, once home to a key Watling Street staging post and Roman town called Letocetum. New analysis there of a small lead figurine has shed intriguing light on Romano-British artistic depictions of people from sub-Saharan Africa.

Wall was also the site of Roman fortifications, and we remain with martial matters as we head to the military training zone on Salisbury Plain. Volunteer veterans from Operation Nightingale have worked with Wessex Archaeology to excavate a Bronze Age roundhouse at Dunch Hill – remains that have now formed the basis for a new experimental reconstruction at Butser Ancient Farm.

We next travel into Wales to tour some of the stunning medieval wall paintings still surviving on church walls, many of them only recently rediscovered beneath multiple coats of whitewash applied during the Protestant Reformation.

From iconoclasm to ideology, the focus of our final feature is a campaign chest that once belonged to the abolitionist activist Thomas Clarkson. Cutting-edge technology has revealed fascinating details of its contents: West African textiles that Clarkson had used to argue against the slave trade.

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Weight 0.174 kg
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Volume

Volume 32

Published Year

2022

Cover Date

Feb-22

Volume Name

Volume 32 Issue 11

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