In last month’s column, I examined a series of sites legacy of the Norman Conquest. One of these was Westminster Abbey, which…
Recent excavations at the Theatre, the playhouse where most of Shakespeare’s early plays were first performed, have uncovered evidence from the first…
The remains of a Roman villa and aisled hall have been discovered during a Cambridge Archaeological Unit excavation in advance of the…
Kinneil House in Bo’ness, just outside Falkirk, is not only a striking 16th- to 17th-century structure, once the principal seat of the…
With the remarkable potential of isotopic analysis making recent headlines (see p.18), it seems apt to talk a bit more about this…
Over the summer, archaeology students descended on Kilmartin, Argyll, to record the numerous examples of prehistoric rock art found in the Glen.…
The series looking at the stories behind the objects from the Portable Antiquities Scheme continues with Worcestershire. Victoria Allnatt, the Finds Liaison…
This volume describes the results of some 20 years of investigation at a site near Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. The work revealed a pit…
In this fascinating book, geneticist David Reich reveals the origins of modern populations through the study of DNA. The results of analysis…
Conventional wisdom has it that very little of the English landscape can be traced further back than the Anglo-Saxon period; and while…
In the last 15 years, the Implement Petrology Group – its members colloquially known as the mad-axers – has been reinvigorated and…