Aard enjoys complimentary subscriptions to a number of popular archaeology magazines from which I learn a lot before passing them on to the Fisksätra public library. Here are my favourite stories from three recent issues that have crossed my current-reading shelf.

Current Archaeology 234, Sept.

• Figures cut into chalk hillsides in Britain, such as the Uffington horse (6 pp.).

Current Archaeology 236, Nov.

• A huge 7th century gold and silver hoard found recently in Staffordshire. Excellent pix! I haven’t blogged about this since it’s been all over the mainstream news and I had little to add. (10 pp.)

• A London tide mill, sturdily built in the 1190s and well preserved in the river sediments, its great wheel partly still in place (6 pp.).

Archaeology Nov/Dec.

• A Bronze Age temple under the Citadel of Aleppo in Syria (6 pp.).

• A 5th century burial with full scale armour for man and horse in South Korea (4 pp.).
• Archaeologists studying the camps of today’s homeless Americans (2 pp.).

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