Examining a new addition to the Hadrian’s Wall ‘souvenir’ vessels Over the last 300 years, a handful of enamelled bronze vessels, most…
Last month’s column explored prehistoric mines, and this month I will follow up on the topic by visiting medieval and modern examples…
Since CA 428, my columns have focused on prehistoric Britain, and while researching these I read about a series of mines dating…
Earliest evidence of humans making fire discovered in Suffolk Excavations at East Farm, Barnham, have uncovered the oldest-known traces of deliberate fire-making…
For my third and final column on the Palaeolithic, I will clamber into some of the most famous caves in the country.…
Exploring landscapes of power in early medieval East Anglia Over the last two decades, evidence of a high-status early medieval settlement has…
In last month’s column, I explored Palaeolithic important prehistoric sites not just in Britain but in the whole of western Europe. Here…
Examining the Norton Disney dodecahedron in its wider context Around 130 dodecahedra have been found across the northern Roman Empire, but the…
In the previous few columns I have explored some of the great towns of Roman Britain – so, as a change of…
Encountering a community from 19th-century Blackburn On 30 September 1820, the cornerstone for a new Anglican church was laid in Blackburn town…
To conclude my mini-series on the towns of Roman. famous Romano-British city of all: Verulamium, modern-day St Albans. With much of the…