Following the recent accession of our new king, Charles III, it seems a good time to explore the history of one of the most-senior but least-well-understood royal residences in London: St James’s Palace. This month’s cover highlights the splendour of its buildings, but its story is turbulent and often surprising,…
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Following last month’s introduction to Current Archaeology’s broader surveys of Scotland, I will commence my detailed tour of the country in this…
In my explorations of Current Archaeology’s history, I have now visited two-thirds of England and Wales. My plan is to tour the…
Understanding the Late Roman hacksilver from the Traprain Hoard Excavation work at Traprain Law, an Iron Age hillfort in East Lothian, some…
Northamptonshire offers a delicious slice of English archaeology from prehistory to the present day. Its central location and its fertile soils mean…
The perspective from population genetics Ancient human DNA is revolutionising our ability to detect human migration that occurred hundreds of years ago.…
The Copped Hall Trust Archaeological Project (CHTAP) offers Archaeology Experience Weekends to absolute beginners who would like an opportunity to: Excavate on a ‘live’ site, where they can make an actual contribution to archaeological investigation, and handle real artefacts from that site. Learn about several geophysics techniques,…
Hyde900 will once again be putting on their annual community dig on…
Colemore is in the west of the South Downs National Park with…
This month marks the second University Archaeology Day, following 2017’s successful inaugural event. Charlotte Frearson, Jennifer French, and Andrew Gardner discuss why…
Is this the time to pursue a course in archaeology? The word from the field that reaches the Current Archaeology offices is…
Don Henson, Director of CASPAR (Centre for Audio-Visual Study and Practice in Archaeology) explains how an innovative new centre at the Institute…
A guide to all the major university archaeology departments in the UK Here we list all the major University departments that specialise…
In a gravel pit at Boxgrove, just outside Chichester, the remains of a man have been discovered, half a million years old.…
Burial chambers of the Neolithic In the Neolithic – the New Stone Age – the older you were, the more important you…
A large Bronze Age boat has recently been discovered at Dover. Keith Parfitt, of the Canterbury Archaeological Trust, reports.…
The Celts were warriors, and the most prominent remains of the Iron Age are the great hillforts, surrounded by banks and ditches…
The great Iron Age hoards discovered at Snettisham in Norfolk form the richest Iron Age treasure ever discovered in this country.…
A rich burial dating to within 20 years after the Roman conquest has just been excavated in a gravel quarry at Stanway,…
