Urban Archaeology at Five Points

Mili Rajic and Dave Howarth. Hollis Croft: A Matter of Time (Milton Keynes: Wessex Archaeology/ Internet Archaeology, 2021, 82pp. 70 illustr. in colour, pbk, ISBN 9781911137214, https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue56/4/comic.html)

“…, https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue56/4/comic.html) Hollis Croft by Mili Rajic and illustrated by Dave Howarth is a graphic novel that contains both an imaginative retelling of the research, excavation, and post-excavation processing of the site of Hollis Croft in Sheffield, UK by Wessex Archaeology in 2017, and a creative fictional imagining of the residents of the site around 1850. Using creative fiction as a means of understanding a site is more familiar in North America, where, for example, the stories of people living in urban sites in New York (Yamin, 2001) and Los Angeles (Costello, 2000) have been retold imaginatively, using a mixture of material culture, historical record, and creative license. Hollis Croft, as an urban, mixed-use site, similar in time period and situation to those North American sites, is a good candidate for applying this kind of archaeological writing in the UK.…”