Excavating around Salisbury Plain Last month I began a tour around the final county of the UK that I had yet to…
Roman diplomacy and the rise of Stanwick Roman meddling in northern England has long been held responsible for a remarkable fortified complex…
The great archaeological bake-off Thank you to all of you who entered our competition to bake CA a 50th birthday cake. Your creations looked…
Andrew Selkirk writes: Having finished writing my magnum opus on the Greeks, I thought I should take a quick look at their…
Excavations at Blick Mead have revealed an unprecedented array of evidence for large Mesolithic gatherings and extravagant feasts taking place just over…
Joe Flatman explores half a century of reports from the past. The CA articles mentioned by Joe Flatman in this month’s column…
In a major new volume on the archaeology of Pembrokeshire, Tim Darvill argues that monument typologies do not help us understand how…
What can the glittering weapon fittings from the Staffordshire Hoard tell us about the Anglo-Saxon warrior elite? Lucia Marchini went along to…
Mark White (ed.) Oxford Archaeology, £25 ISBN 978-0904220773 Review George Nash This much-anticipated book, funded by the former Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund…
Michael Nevell Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, £25 ISBN 978-190833210 Review LM The M74 Completion Project saw the construction of a new…
Exploring the ‘first place’ in the stonehenge landscape Ongoing excavations at Blick Mead, an ancient spring on Salisbury Plain, have revealed an…