Uncovering the hidden human history of a celebrated Scottish island A small team of archaeologists has been undertaking research into the island…
Will the media’s recent glamourisation of the Staffordshire Hoard’s monetary value cause a rise in illegal metal-detecting? Dr Pete Wilson puts his…
On Monday, 12 October 2009, Sir David Attenborough participated in the Cambridge University Personal-Histories in Archaeology project. I was there, along with…
We still live in the Ice Age that began around 2.5 million years ago. Our present time is an ‘interglacial’: a relatively…
The Bamburgh Research Project is picking up the pieces of the archaeological work started by legendary eccentric Dr Brian Hope-Taylor, who had…
Landmark excavations at St Albans in 1955-1961 transformed ideas about Late Roman towns. Excavator Sheppard Frere claimed that urban life continued well…
The Stonehenge story continues to evolve: a whole new chapter has just been added after the remarkable discovery this summer of a…
It is always a little dangerous to revisit old friends. What will they be like? Will you still like them when you…
I attended the launch yesterday of the 2007 Portable Antiquities Scheme annual report. Held at the BM in the new temporary exhibit…
When I went on holiday this year, I took with me some archaeological books for a little light reading. One of them…
Teenage girls wed old men shockIt sounds like a salacious headline from one of the red-tops, but actually this story comes from…