After last month’s column on Westminster Cathedral, I will continue my ecclesiastical theme this month by exploring three of the great religious…
A new exhibition on Hadrian has just opened at the British Museum. At the same time, an exhibition on Skeletons has opened…
The moated site at North, or Little, Conesby was seen as being one of Scunthorpe’s ‘most charming beauty spots’. It was probably…
Historical sources show that the expansion of cod fishing from the 15th century onward played in important role in European colonisation of…
{mosimage}When archaeologists began work at 120-122 London Road, Gloucester, in August 2004, it was the site of a disused service station. Oxford…
Interviewed by The Cornishman in 1954 shortly after setting up his excavation at Gwithian, Charles Thomas, a young graduate of the Institute…
Day three at WAC and the conference mates are well.Following our prehistoric musical interlude yesterday afternoon, I attended a session on development-funded…
As I type, it is lunch time. One thousand delegates are thronging around the coffee and sandwich tables. Suddenly, into the crowd…
Lisa Westcott and Nadia Durrani head out to Dublin for the 6th World Archaeological Congress, the Olympics of Archaeology. First impressions: Dublin…
At the Brading Roman Villa in the Isle of Wight, new excavations are being planned by Barry Cunliffe and Michael Fulford. As…
North Argyll is a landscape dominated by the sea and, until the recent past, its inhabitants viewed it from a predominantly maritime…