Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, chairman of the Swedish Skeptics Society, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.
Current Archaeology, "the UK's best selling archaeology magazine", has kindly given me a complimentary subscription. I recently received my first issue, #228 (March '09), and I found it an enjoyable read.
Best of all, I liked James Barrett's and Adam Slater's piece on their recent fieldwork at the Brough of Deerness, Mainland, Orkney. This scenic and Scandy-flavoured site would have interested me anyway, but now I also happened to have visited it last June in the company of Barrett and the Brough's 1970s excavator Chris Morris. That visit took place as part of a conference excursion, and weeks later the new excavations opened. A very timely report!
An article celebrating the centennial of the Scottish and Welsh Royal Commissions is mainly interesting thanks to lovely pictures with intriguing captions. And a feature on WW2 Home Guard defenses in a London suburb - remains of the local militia's preparations for an invasion that happily never took place - is difficult to appreciate for a citizen of a country that hasn't seen war for two centuries.
All in all a finely designed and interesting magazine. I look forward to the next issue!
Comments
The WW2 Home Guard defenses at Shooters Hill were the subject of a Channel 4 television Time Team program: details here.
Posted by: Tristram Brelstaff | March 15, 2009 11:51 AM