24th August 2011, 07:33 PM
RedEarth Wrote:I couldn't comment on the south, maybe it depends which part of the north you are in.
It was the notion of a 'local authority' magazine covering archaeology in some way that was interesting. I am familiar with county society journals carrying summaries of work carried out, although these not put together by those doing actually the work, which makes things a bit easier, but that's slightly different. I'm also aware of Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, although I'm not sure how that is compiled and by whom. All very useful, indeed, essential and a shame for those areas that don't have something along those lines.
All the ones I mentioned are prepared by the County Council archaeological staffs. Yorkshire also benefits from all the 'sections' affiliated to the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, that all produce their own annual reports, so if you've got a period-specific site of any interest there's never any problem getting something short into print, they're usually trawling for stuff to fill them without all the fuss involved with the 'proper' journals (no insult intended to the smaller publications which are invariably full of good stuff, even mine on occasion).