When Wessex archaeologists lifted the lid of a three-tonne stone coffin from Boscombe Down, Wiltshire, last year, they were greeted by the…
Most students of prehistory will have wrestled at some stage with the essay question that runs: ‘The Neolithic Revolution was neither Neolithic nor…
Members of Canterbury Archaeological Trust returned to Ringlemere Farm in the summer of 2007, and although nothing was found to compare with…
Divers from the Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology (HWTMA), investigating a drowned Mesolithic site at the foot of Bouldnor Cliff,…
A beautiful Iron Age comb unearthed in Tanworth-in-Arden, Warwickshire,by metal-detector enthusiast Russell Peach, is one of the most notable of nearly 60,000…
The discovery of spectacular gold jewellery in a mid-7th century cemetery on land near Redcar,Teesside, is being hailed as ‘the most dramatic…
In 1901 Seebohm Rowntree – a York chocolate manufacturer – published one of the classic texts of early sociology. His work inspired…
On May 29, 2000, Amanda Chadburn, the English Heritage Inspector of Ancient Monuments for the South-Western Region, received an alarming phone call:…
The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is threatened with a realterms budget cut that might close its central unit and terminate the national…
“Shedding Light on the Dark Ages” Weorod are a small independent group of Historical Re-enactors who specialise in providing Living History and…