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…
Do we need another book on Hadrian’s Wall? The answer in this case is a resounding ‘yes’. The authors curate the magnificent…
This is a welcome addition to the literature on confinement, a topic that has developed from a little-studied phenomenon into one of…
Even though most of the country is in lockdown there are still plenty of ways to get explore the past! Amy Brunskill…
It was long thought that huge and complex monuments like Mount Pleasant in Dorset had developed over many centuries – but new…
In my previous column (CA 370), I examined Yorkshire’s prehistoric archaeology. This month, I am moving forward chronologically to explore the Roman,…
Between 30 BC and the 3rd century AD, during which period Egypt was a province of the Roman Empire, a practice developed…
Hillforts, arguably the most Romantic and certainly the most monumentally impressive of archaeological sites in Britain, are currently undergoing a renaissance. Fieldwork…
This is a lucid and business-like report on developer-funded digs in the northern and eastern environs of the legionary fortress at Chester.…
Concentrating around Southgate Street, Hurst’s meticulous open-area investigations revealed the Roman legionary headquarters, over which he discovered remains of the later Roman…
The Ness of Brodgar in Orkney is ‘a site of superlatives’. So write the authors of this absorbing new book about a…