Earliest evidence of humans making fire discovered in Suffolk Excavations at East Farm, Barnham, have uncovered the oldest-known traces of deliberate fire-making…
Tracing the impact – and the experiences – of the Roman army in Britain A major new exhibition at the British Museum…
Exploring the extra-mural settlement of a Hadrian’s Wall fort For the last three years, excavations outside the walls of Birdoswald Roman fort…
Exploring evidence for gladiators in York and Cirencester Last month’s CA reviewed an exhibition in Cirencester that features six ‘gladiator’ skeletons excavated…
Excavating eroding archaeology on Rousay In the concluding part of our Orkney trilogy (see also CA 394 and 395), Carly Hilts reports…
‘The past lies in fragments… one might just as well try to reconstruct the idea of a tree from its leaves, or…
Archaeologists excavating a 15,000-year-old campsite at Les Varines, Jersey, have recovered ten fragments of stone decorated with hundreds of interweaving lines.…
It was long thought that huge and complex monuments like Mount Pleasant in Dorset had developed over many centuries – but new…
The Ness of Brodgar in Orkney is ‘a site of superlatives’. So write the authors of this absorbing new book about a…
New dating evidence from Chedworth Roman Villa in Gloucestershire may have identified Britain’s first-known 5th-century mosaic, researchers have announced.…