A new exhibition at the British Museum explores the landscape that Stonehenge emerged from, and the social, cultural, and technological transformations it…
The 1970s were an exciting time for British archaeology, with large-scale open-area excavations in many historic city centres revealing a previously unsuspected…
How do you begin to analyse a corroded mass of almost 70,000 Celtic coins? Neil Mahrer guides us through the painstaking process…
Archaeologists excavating a 15,000-year-old campsite at Les Varines, Jersey, have recovered ten fragments of stone decorated with hundreds of interweaving lines.…
Concluding his two-part exploration of Anglo-Saxon studies in the present day, John Hines considers what the future holds for this field.…
In English history, the years AD 410-1066 are traditionally called the ‘Anglo-Saxon’ period. How far is this an appropriate description, and how…
It was long thought that huge and complex monuments like Mount Pleasant in Dorset had developed over many centuries – but new…
Excavation just outside Corby has shed vivid light on the construction of a Roman villa, the reuse of an enigmatic religious building,…
Isurium Brigantum was a thriving and prosperous Roman town in what is now North Yorkshire, but it has attracted relatively little modern…
Four hundred years ago, the Mayflower carried around 100 would-be colonists across the Atlantic to found Plymouth Plantation in Massachusetts. What can…
Archaeologists have long puzzled over fragments of human bone that have been found scattered around late Bronze Age settlements and placed in…