In last month’s column, I touched on two medieval Abbey in Winchester and Reading Abbey in Berkshire, the purported resting places of…
A monstrous regiment of women is taking over. On Friday 3rd April the women held an all-day conference at the Antiquaries where…
What are the major threats to our heritage today? It is always fascinating to have an inside view of what English Heritage…
A Bronze Age ‘Beaker' burial skeleton has been uncovered by archaeologists in east Kent. The 4,000 year old remains were found in…
Two rare gold coins of the rebel Roman emperor Carausius have been discovered on a construction site in the Midlands. Gold coins…
Why did some people survive the Black Death, and others succumb? At the time of the plague – which ravaged Europe from…
University of Exeter archaeologists have discovered a first century AD Roman fort in south east Cornwall that is only the third Roman…
A Bronze Age axe hoard has been discovered at a site near Swanage, on the Isle of Purbeck, in south Dorset. Over…
In the mid-1980s, a group of archaeology graduates excavated a Roman villa in the Cotswolds but the true significance of the villa is…
The traditional image is of backward, hostile, bluepainted hordes led by a red-haired fury. Unlike the Celtic sophisticates of the South East,…
Hand axes from the Ice Age have been dragged up from the North Sea, just off Great Yarmouth. The 28 hand-axes are…