Excavating around Salisbury Plain Last month I began a tour around the final county of the UK that I had yet to…
On Monday, 12 October 2009, Sir David Attenborough participated in the Cambridge University Personal-Histories in Archaeology project. I was there, along with…
It is always a little dangerous to revisit old friends. What will they be like? Will you still like them when you…
I attended the launch yesterday of the 2007 Portable Antiquities Scheme annual report. Held at the BM in the new temporary exhibit…
When I went on holiday this year, I took with me some archaeological books for a little light reading. One of them…
Teenage girls wed old men shockIt sounds like a salacious headline from one of the red-tops, but actually this story comes from…
The Los Angeles Times recently reported (29 May 2009) that eBay has reduced the demand for looted antiquities. The story is based…
Morris and the PrinceHaving just written a new guide to Kelmscott Manor, your diarist has a growing admiration for William Morris, whose…
One should not start a project that one cannot complete. Having started writing a blog on the first day of my pilgrimage…
‘BIN09′ is the site code for this year’s season of the major new field project at the Roman fort of Binchester, run…
The Hadrian’s Wall pilgrimage is going well. The Pilgrimage is one of the great events of British archaeology. It began…