After last month’s column on Westminster Cathedral, I will continue my ecclesiastical theme this month by exploring three of the great religious…
The great Iron Age hoards discovered at Snettisham in Norfolk form the richest Iron Age treasure ever discovered in this country.…
A rich burial dating to within 20 years after the Roman conquest has just been excavated in a gravel quarry at Stanway,…
Most Roman towns were sited either over previous towns, or over Roman forts. London was unusual in that it appears to have…
Roman documents discovered Probably the most important – and certainly the most dramatic discoveries made in Roman Britain in the 20th century…
Roman Britain does not just consist of grand buildings. There are also smaller buildings out in the countryside, and at Littlehay, near…
While the Romans were civilising England, life was very different story in Northern Scotland, and particularly in the outer isles, Orkney and…
Roman mosaics are perhaps the most spectacular Roman remains in Britain. Many of the finest come from Roman villas, where they reflect…
In the early 4th century, a troop of boatmen were transferred from one end of the Roman Empire to the other. Abandoning…
Has King Arthur been discovered at Tintagel? Tintagel, on the North coast of Cornwall, is famed in legend as the home of…
In the 7th century AD, a King – it was surely no less – received a magnificent burial at Sutton Hoo, in…