Examining a new addition to the Hadrian’s Wall ‘souvenir’ vessels Over the last 300 years, a handful of enamelled bronze vessels, most…
It is always a little dangerous to revisit old friends. What will they be like? Will you still like them when you…
I attended the launch yesterday of the 2007 Portable Antiquities Scheme annual report. Held at the BM in the new temporary exhibit…
When I went on holiday this year, I took with me some archaeological books for a little light reading. One of them…
Teenage girls wed old men shockIt sounds like a salacious headline from one of the red-tops, but actually this story comes from…
In CA 233 we reported on the discovery at Hallaton, in Leicestershire, of a rare Roman cavalry parade helmet. It was just…
Last summer, digging through 3.5m of riverside mud at Greenwich in London, archaeologists uncovered the remains of a huge timber watermill of…
By contrast with those familiar institutions of the post-Norman era, the castle, the abbey and the church, Medieval hospitals have received little…
Britain’s biggest ever Anglo-Saxon hoard has been discovered, almost 70 years to the day since gold was first unearthed at Sutton Hoo.…
The Los Angeles Times recently reported (29 May 2009) that eBay has reduced the demand for looted antiquities. The story is based…
The largest hoard of Anglo Saxon gold ever found, was discovered this summer by a metal-detectorist in a field in Staffordshire and…