Uncovering luxury living and ‘ritual activity’ in Roman Oxfordshire Archaeological work in rural Oxfordshire has uncovered the remains of a winged corridor…
A recently opened museum at London’s Charterhouse illuminates centuries of life at this former medieval monastery. Lucia Marchini explores some of the…
By any standards, one of the ‘great’ archaeologists of our age is Francis Pryor, a prehistorian who has featured regularly in the…
Across Dorset, impressive earthworks mark the location of Iron Age hillforts. Until recently, though, little archaeological attention had been paid to what…
The Treasure Act and the Portable Antiquities Scheme have released their annual reports, and the number of new finds made by members…
In last month’s ‘Science Notes’ we took you on a tour of the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, discussing the intricacies of radiocarbon…
Over the decades there have been tantalising hints about the Emperor Nero (r. AD 54-68) and his possible connections with the Roman…
In April, a survey was conducted on the 1,800 gravestones in Dundee Howff cemetery by the Dundee Howff Conservation Group, aided by…
Richard III was reburied in Leicester Cathedral in 2015 (see CA 303), but his original resting place has not been forgotten. The…
A team from the University of Bristol, led by Cat Jarman and Mark Horton, is reanalysing the Viking site at Repton in…
During November, Wessex Archaeology, with the support of the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO), returned to Barrow Clump – a Neolithic settlement on…