When we invited Mick’s Time Team colleagues to contribute to our commemorative article, we were inundated with warm words and loving memories.…
A 6,000-year-old oak timber carved with a concentric oval pattern and zig-zag lines, recently discovered in the RhonddaValley, Mid Wales, is thought…
Recent excavations just outside the walls of Roman Cirencester revealed the unexpected survival of parts of a town cemetery — and gave…
In the winter of AD 872-873 a Viking army made camp at Torksey in Lincolnshire. Dawn Hadley and Julian D Richards are…
Tracking the movement of ancient armies is notoriously difficult. On those occasions when a mobile force threw up a bank and ditch…
It is with great sadness that we have learned that Mick Aston passed away on 24 June. Familiar to millions for his…
Where to begin? Mick reveals why the County Record Office should be the first port of call for any project investigating the…
An interdisciplinary team of scientists have reconstructed the face of a Tudor archer, almost 500 years after he drowned aboard Henry VIII’s…
The jets dowsing the Mary Rose in polyethylene glycol have finally been shut off. As work begins on drying her timbers, the…
Aberystwyth’s Young Archaeologists’ Club recently stepped back in time nearly 80 years to recreate an historic view of excavators working on Pen…