A stunning hoard of Iron Age gold coins was found in Suffolk in spring 2008, and has turned out to be one…
A major new conference event brought to you by Current Archaeology magazine and the British Museum’s Department of Portable Antiquities and Treasure.…
We’ve gone through the last 12 months of CA and picked out some of the sites, projects, books and personalities that have…
Current Archaeology, Cardiff University and the National Museum Cardiff are pleased to announce the 2nd annual Archaeology Festival, 6-8 February 2009…
Archaeologists in York have uncovered a Viking house at Hungate earlier this month. The building dates from the mid to late 10th…
A lump of chalk carved to resemble a piglet with snout and floppy ears has been found in the grave of a…
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Shakespeare is associated mainly with the Globe and the South Bank. But most of his early plays were first performed at a…
A tiny fragment of granite and a sherd of pottery, unearthed at the tail end of an excavation in Northern Ireland, signalled…
Enamelled bronzes from Roman Britain have turned up all over the Roman world. This poses an interesting question: were Celtic artists making tourist…
English Heritage archaeologists have recently had a rare chance to investigate Britain’s first ‘Palladian’ country house – Chiswick House in West London.…