The winners of this year’s Current Archaeology Awards were announced on Saturday 28th February as part of Current Archaeology Live! 2026. The…
The Thames Discovery Programme – whose volunteers record the archaeology of the Thames foreshore – has recently celebrated its tenth birthday. Eliott…
Excavations in the historic heart of Oxford have shed light on the city’s origins and development – including uncovering some of its…
Over a decade of research at Britain’s most important Mesolithic site has shed vivid light on life shortly after the end of…
In my last two columns I picked some favourite covers from issues 101-200 (1986-2005) of Current Archaeology. I continue this series in…
What does a spectacular, recently found gold object add to our understanding of Bronze Age artistry, and can it help to solve…
In last month’s column I highlighted some of my favourite covers from issues 101-200 (1986- 2005). Now I pick up where I…
Modern Bath Abbey overlies the site of what was one of the largest cathedrals in medieval England. Now its remains, together with…
A small area of rural Cambridgeshire has proven remarkably rich in archaeological evidence for the funerary practices of long-vanished communities – including…
The small stone circle that has stood in Liverpool’s Calderstones Park for the past half century is in fact the remains…
In last month’s column, I picked some of my favourite covers from the first hundred issues of Current Archaeology, the years 1967-1986,…