One of the joys of the Current Archaeology archive is its ‘tales of the unexpected’. After last month’s column on early medieval…
How the Black Death prompted a building boom It used to be thought that only high-class houses had survived from the Medieval…
In September 2012, archaeologists from the University of Leicester announced a significant development in their search for the remains of Richard III,…
In CA 271 we brought you news of astonishing Mesolithic finds at Vespasian’s Camp on Salisbury Plain, a potentially game-changing site for…
Standing just 4cm high, St George raises his lance to strike a fatal blow against the tiny dragon staring back at him.…
Salisbury Plain is renowned for its spectacular Neolithic monuments, but decades of research have found few traces of earlier activity in the…
Almost 500 people braved the snow to visit the Northwest Cambridge Site’s extensive archaeological remains during an open day last month. A…
The rolling green farmland northwest of Cambridge was once crowded with bustling Roman settlements and industry, recent excavations suggest. Cambridge Archaeological Unit…
Our LiDAR cake includes a plane – accurately depicted in icing – as used by the Cambridge University Unit for Landscape Modelling…
CA‘s sister-magazine Current World Archaeology is celebrating its 10th anniversary. To mark the occasion, I persuaded my four girls to bake a…
This cake was commissioned by the Office of Public Works for the launch of the new Knowth volume, The Archaeology of Knowth…