Archaeology is alive with uncertainties. Time and again new sites or technologies upend longstanding theories. All this month’s featured sites show the…
Exploring the Rothwell Charnel Chapel Project Why were bones placed in charnel chapels, and just how common was this practice in medieval…
Legend has it that the Rothwell charnel chapel was discovered when a grave digger tumbled into an underground vault stacked with bones.…
The Mary Rose museum at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard was reopened 471 years to the day since the sinking of Henry VIII’s flagship…
Issue 320 of Current Archaeology goes on sale today (6 October), boasting a brand new look with even more pages of dedicated archaeological…
Excavators were repeatedly drawn to Glastonbury Abbey during the 20th century, but the fruits of their labours rarely made it into print.…
Glastonbury has a knack of attracting stories. It is a place where legends of a once and future king and feet in…
Current Archaeology Live! 2017 will be returning to the University of London's Senate House, on 24-25 February (Friday/Saturday). We will be hearing…
More than 300 people came along to celebrate 40 years of Hadrian’s Wall research at our special conference on 2-4 September, organised…
The Society, founded initially as a Caving and Archaeological Society in 1950, exists to promote interest and research into the rich history…