Examining a new addition to the Hadrian’s Wall ‘souvenir’ vessels Over the last 300 years, a handful of enamelled bronze vessels, most…
Last month, we reported in ‘News’ on the recent LiDAR work done to accurately measure the length of the Antonine Wall. Here,…
This month we are doing something a little different, exploring a wider theme rather than a specific technique. A recent public-interest piece…
The 6th and 7th centuries in England were defined by great social change. Along with the gradual conversion to Christianity in many…
That picture-postcard village you have just driven through might seem an eternal part of the landscape, but this informative and well-illustrated book…
Another in the series of ‘50 Finds from the Portable Antiquities Scheme’, this book focuses on Warwickshire, and demonstrates, once again, the…
Based on archaeological and fragmentary documentary evidence, the Irish Sea was a significant superhighway during prehistory, right through to the medieval period,…
Geology has few laws, but the most encompassing and important is the late 18th- to 19th-century Doctrine of Uniformitarianism – ‘the present…
The Roman army is a well-studied aspect of the ancient empire it served, and tourists frequently visit the remains of legionary fortresses…
Visiting any of the great national museums on the Continent (even the regional and local ones, come to that), students of Roman…
Norwich Castle’s life as a royal fortification was short-lived, and it served much more time as a county gaol. Lucia Marchini pays…