So…In this weeks weekly news round up…

ROMANS

Research at Aldborough in Yorkshire shows that iron production did not end with the Roman withdrawal around AD 410.

Sediment cores reveal traces of metalworking continuing into the late Roman and early medieval period, as late as AD 550–600.

This evidence challenges the long-held view of a sudden collapse into a purely agrarian “Dark Age”. Britain appears to have maintained some industrial activity, at least in iron, for centuries longer than previously assumed.

VIKINGS

In Viking news…excavations are set to begin at Govan Old Church in Glasgow, a site with origins around AD 500. The churchyard is already famous for the Viking-era “Govan Stones”…carved hogbacks and crosses…but archaeologists believe more monuments may lie beneath the ground.

Any finds could shed new light on early medieval Christian practice and the power structures of the Kingdom of Strathclyde.

MEDIEVAL

In the City of London, the medieval tower of All Hallows Staining now stands on stilts while construction continues on the 36-storey Fifty Fenchurch development beneath it.

First built in 1320, the tower is the sole survivor of a church destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. A Grade I listed structure, it is being preserved and incorporated into the new scheme.