Three of our features this month focus on finds recently declared ‘Treasure’ according to the 1996 Treasure Act – legislation that has…
Whether you are an academic reviewing the history of lime kilns across Britain or simply an enthusiast who is interested in understanding…
Clifton Quarry is a key site for the prehistory of the West Midlands. The outstanding discovery was an early Iron Age settlement,…
Asked to think about catacombs, our minds might initially turn to the grand subterranean ossuaries of, say, Rome or Paris. However, London…
Robin Derricourt’s book is an overview of current and past research on the nature of the evidence for children in prehistory. As…
Over the recent past there has been a flurry of literature concerned with the Neolithic of the British Isles, each book promoting…
The decades leading up to the Roman conquest of Britain must have been a dynamic and turbulent time, a period of tribal…
Modern Bath Abbey overlies the site of what was one of the largest cathedrals in medieval England. Now its remains, together with…
Given the recent cold weather, the discovery of a massive underground ‘ice house’, unearthed next to Regent’s Park in London, seems rather…
A cemetery excavated on the site of New Covent Garden Market in Nine Elms, near Battersea, is illuminating the lives of some…