In last month’s column, I examined a series of sites legacy of the Norman Conquest. One of these was Westminster Abbey, which…
Nothing is as good as a question to establish the theme of a book. But in this case the question is not…
This is an excellent book about a subject so fundamental to archaeological field practice that nobody should be let loose on an…
Many archaeologists regard Druids with disdain, as cranks or romantics who claim to have roots deep in the ancient past, but whose…
Tuscany is famous for handsome villas set in elevated positions overlooking formal gardens of clipped box that give way to an increasingly…
Coming to a library near you soon (one hopes, given the investment involved in owning a copy) is the third volume in…
Bryony Coles gave the name ‘Doggerland’ to the drowned landscape beneath the North Sea in her 1998 paper in the Proceedings of…
This Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology Monograph derives from a conference held in 2008 at Leicester University with the aim of stopping what…
Robin Birley set out to excavate the entirety of the Vindolanda fort and associated civilian settlement on Hadrian’s Wall in 1970, calculating…
While planning a book on the castles of Herefordshire, Terry Wardle came across references in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle to a castle built…
The manor house, six labourer’s cottages and a church are all that now survive above ground of one of Hertfordshire’s smallest parishes,…