The winners of this year’s Current Archaeology Awards were announced on Saturday 28th February as part of Current Archaeology Live! 2026. The…
Almost a decade ago, the crumbling remains of Reading Abbey – once one of the most important medieval religious centres in northern…
In this latest excavation of the CA archive, I continue to explore some of the ‘great excavations’ reported on over the years…
In a period that is largely defined by the Romans and their written histories, thanks to a relatively poor archaeological record, coinage…
The Picts remain one of the more elusive early medieval kingdoms of Britain, and our knowledge of their culture is still rather…
A recent study, conducted by researchers from the Centre for Human Bioarchaeology at the Museum of London and Durham University, has looked…
The long-lost moat of Newark Castle has been rediscovered during a £60m project led by Severn Trent to upgrade Newark’s sewers. The…
CITiZAN, a community archaeology project focused on vulnerable intertidal and coastal sites, has won the Arts, Culture, and Heritage prize at the…
The Isles of Scilly are known for their sandy beaches and shallow tidal waters, but the archipelago was not always like this.…
In today’s era of ‘fake news’, we haven’t been entirely surprised to see recent headlines claiming new research has proven that radiocarbon…
An ambitious project to conduct the largest geophysical survey to-date of the island of Rousay in Orkney has begun. It is being…