The news that the Bayeux Tapestry will be making a once-in-a-lifetime visit to Britain from September 2026 until July 2027 made me…
First World War trenches? Second World War air-raid shelters? Cold War bunkers? This is the stuff of modern conflict archaeology, but what…
The recent work of the Achill Archaeological Field School examines the island’s archaeology from the Neolithic through to the dark days of…
Leading Norfolk archaeologist John Davies has just published a new book on the perennial favourite rebel queen, Boudica. We asked him to…
Two very important discoveries have been made at the multi-period site of Higham Ferrers, in Northamptonshire: one a Romano-British shrine complex, and…
One should not start a project that one cannot complete. Having started writing a blog on the first day of my pilgrimage…
This is a book that reflects the uncomfortable truce that has been reached between pragmatism and ideology within the archaeological community in…
the archaeology of industrial Wales Wales was central to the world’s first industrial revolution; the abandoned remains of 200-year-old coal and iron…
In 1969, fire raged through this exceptional Elizabethan house. Paul Drury explains what archaeologists were able to rescue from the burnt-out husk.…
With the widespread use of optical stimulated luminescence (OSL) for dating soil samples, the mysterious giant hillside carvings of horses and men…
There were no credit crunches in the Late Iron Age: highly skilled Celtic mintmasters took painstaking care to ensure money had real,…