The winners of this year’s Current Archaeology Awards were announced on Saturday 28th February as part of Current Archaeology Live! 2026. The…
We always look forward to escaping from the office to meet archaeologists working to uncover the secrets of the past – their…
Explaining the end of Early Anglo-Saxon funerary traditions While rewriting the Neolithic in Gathering Time (CA 259), Alex Bayliss was also…
The Early Anglo-Saxon tradition of burying the dead in their finery has bequeathed some of Britain’s most spectacular archaeology, from the regal…
I made this model as part of this year’s Carlisle Pageant celebrations, since the castle and the custard cream are two massive…
Making a killing in the Thames Estuary In 2004 the skeleton of an elephant still surrounded by the flints used to butcher…
Oxford Archaeology, one of the oldest archaeological units in the UK, celebrates its 40th birthday this autumn. CA caught up with Chief…
On the trail of a Medieval mystery The unexpected discovery of a magnificent Medieval complex during routine development work set archaeologists quite…
‘I’ll need it by the end of the week’ is a stock workplace demand. As it is issued you can calculate, with…
At first glance the skills of a soldier and an archaeologist do not seem an obvious match. Yet both disciplines demand manual…
What can we learn from going back to a site that was first excavated by Grahame Clark in 1949-51, and that has…