After last month’s column on Westminster Cathedral, I will continue my ecclesiastical theme this month by exploring three of the great religious…
The first project to excavate at Lufton Roman villa since the 1960s has revealed new details of the Somerset site’s famous octagonal…
Burghead Fort, near Lossiemouth in Moray, is thought to have been a significant Pictish seat of power, being the biggest fort of…
An international team of maritime archaeologists is working to excavate and record the remains of the Rooswijk, an at-risk Dutch wreck off…
An unusual late Bronze Age hoard recently discovered in the west of Cumbria is the first of its kind to be found…
The remains of a cargo ship wrecked in the Bristol Channel over 100 years ago have been identified during routine survey. The…
It has long been known that the early humans who inhabited Gough’s Cave, Somerset, around 15,000 years ago practised cannibalism and modified…
Work to create a new visitor centre at the Old Royal Naval College has uncovered long-lost traces of Greenwich Palace – the…
David Field and David McOmish, with photographs by Steve Speller Amberley Publishing, £16.99 ISBN 978-1445648415 Review David Roberts This brisk and fluent…
M C Bishop Osprey Publishing, £12.99 ISBN 978-1472815880 Review Kate Gilliver Mike Bishop’s beautifully produced volume on the Roman pilum collects a…
Rebecca Haslam and Victoria Ridgeway The British Museum Press, £40.00 ISBN 978-0861592036 Review LM The British Museum is home to archaeological riches…