The news that the Bayeux Tapestry will be making a once-in-a-lifetime visit to Britain from September 2026 until July 2027 made me…
A lead vessel bearing early Christian iconography has been discovered at Vindolanda. It is the first cup or chalice to be found…
Recent excavation of the North Green at Westminster Abbey has revealed the remains of the Great Sacristy, built in the 1250s on…
Earlier this year, excavations on two sections of the N73 between the historic towns of Mallow and Mitchelstown in the north of…
A recent study has detected a previously unknown ancient clade of the variola virus (VARV) – the causative agent of smallpox –…
A lack of sources regarding the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia has often led to it being overshadowed by other contemporary kingdoms, such…
Neanderthals must be the most-familiar members of our extended family tree. Since the first discoveries of their bones in the 1850s (a…
Charlotte Golledge’s book takes us on a tour of the burial places of Edinburgh. For each cemetery, she provides a small precis…
In April 2010, a metal-detectorist found a pot containing 52,503 Roman coins near Frome in Somerset. As one of the largest hoards…
It is not easy to describe 400 years of activity stretching from southern England almost to the edge of Scotland, but Denise…
Grave AX at Yeavering remains one of the most-extraordinary discoveries in Anglo-Saxon archaeology. Its occupant lay in a slightly flexed posture, with…