In my previous two columns I explored some of the known for their medieval and later histories, and for their towering urban…
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,…
How soldiers’ fashions reflect political turmoil in Late Roman Britain A Romano-British army in Spain. Anglo-Saxon mercenaries in eastern England. A great…
‘BIN09′ is the site code for this year’s season of the major new field project at the Roman fort of Binchester, run…
The Hadrian’s Wall pilgrimage is going well. The Pilgrimage is one of the great events of British archaeology. It began…
In view of the current debate about the rights and wrongs of suicide, Terry Jones in his recent book on ‘Barbarians’…