Examining a new addition to the Hadrian’s Wall ‘souvenir’ vessels Over the last 300 years, a handful of enamelled bronze vessels, most…
It was said that astronomy was divided into two: study of the Crab Nebula and the rest. Similarly, in British prehistory, the…
As an immediately recognisable monument, Hadrian’s Wall has long proved a rich seam of inspiration for cartoonists. Lucia Marchini visited a new…
Current Archaeology's Editor-in-Chief, Andrew Selkirk, tells all about his recent trip to Hadrian's Wall. Vindolanda is flourishing. It is unique because it…
Joe Flatman explores half a century of reports from the past. A selection of articles mentioned by Joe Flatman in this month’s…
‘Easy Company’, the American paratroopers also known as the ‘Band of Brothers’, is one of the best-known Allied units involved in the…
New excavation and analysis of three crannogs – or man-made islands – in the Outer Hebrides has clearly demonstrated that they had…
Remnants from the Battle of Glensheil – the Highland battle that ended the 1719 Jacobite Rising and James Francis Edward Stuart’s ambitions…
An excavation at Kirkton of Fetteresso near Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire has yielded some of the earliest Neolithic pottery yet found in Scotland.…
During excavations at Warth Park in Raunds, Northamptonshire, archaeologists from Oxford Archaeology east made an unusual roman discovery: a wooden arm with…
Previously, large-scale changes in population were quite difficult, if not impossible, to discern from the archaeological record. But while there are still…