At first glance the skills of a soldier and an archaeologist do not seem an obvious match. Yet both disciplines demand manual…
What can we learn from going back to a site that was first excavated by Grahame Clark in 1949-51, and that has…
Recent excavations just outside the walls of Roman Cirencester revealed the unexpected survival of parts of a town cemetery — and gave…
In the winter of AD 872-873 a Viking army made camp at Torksey in Lincolnshire. Dawn Hadley and Julian D Richards are…
The rise and fall of a Roman waterfront In early May the excavation of a riverbank in the heart of Roman…
Discovered in 1880, the villa at Brading on the Isle of Wight has mosaics to compare with the best in the Roman…
This amazing cake was made by my daughter Katie for my 60th birthday, after I had spent a fortnight digging at Syon…
Ian Haynes, Professor of Archaeology at Newcastle University, discusses the challenges in providing students with a thorough archaeological education and explains how…
How the Black Death prompted a building boom It used to be thought that only high-class houses had survived from the Medieval…
Our LiDAR cake includes a plane – accurately depicted in icing – as used by the Cambridge University Unit for Landscape Modelling…