After last month’s column on Westminster Cathedral, I will continue my ecclesiastical theme this month by exploring three of the great religious…
A lump of chalk carved to resemble a piglet with snout and floppy ears has been found in the grave of a…
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Shakespeare is associated mainly with the Globe and the South Bank. But most of his early plays were first performed at a…
In 2002, launching the first ever ‘Heritage Counts’ digest of statistics on the health of the historic environment, Tessa Jowell, then Secretary…
A tiny fragment of granite and a sherd of pottery, unearthed at the tail end of an excavation in Northern Ireland, signalled…
The world’s media reported in August that a huge timber fence was used to separate ordinary mortals from the privileged classes…
Enamelled bronzes from Roman Britain have turned up all over the Roman world. This poses an interesting question: were Celtic artists making tourist…
English Heritage archaeologists have recently had a rare chance to investigate Britain’s first ‘Palladian’ country house – Chiswick House in West London.…
In 1970, writing in CA 21, architect-turned archaeologist Chris Musson estimated that there were perhaps 200 roundhouses known in archaeological literature. The…
How the Roman emperors quarried their marble. High in the mountains of Egypt’s eastern desert, one of the world’s most magical marbles…
The Council for Independent archaeology is holding its annual get-together at Monmouth on Saturday the 30th August, and all archaeologists are invited…