One of the joys of the Current Archaeology archive is its ‘tales of the unexpected’. After last month’s column on early medieval…
A new study analysing the teeth of adults who died in the Kilkenny Union Workhouse at the height of the Great Famine…
The remains of a settlement associated with the Roman fort of Bravoniacum has been unearthed near Kirkby Thore in Cumbria. The footprints…
At the opposite end of the country to the Cumbrian settlement described above, signs of another possible extramural fort settlement have been…
King Henry I is said to have died from eating a ‘surfeit of lampreys’, but there is no excess of these eel-like…
In the early days of archaeology, human remains were often treated as an afterthought, deemed unable to tell us much about past…
Bronze age cists were discovered in the Kilmore area of the village in 2015 and 2017, and excavation this year has once…
On 14 November, London’s Temple of Mithras – now known as the ‘London Mithraeum’ – reopened to the public as the first…
For decades, pottery of eastern Mediterranean origin found at 5th- to 7th-century sites in western Britain has been claimed as evidence for…
A unique addition to the history of British archaeology, Archaeologists in Print is a closely researched examination of the story archaeology has…
Bruce Eagles has spent more than 50 years studying and analysing the early medieval archaeology of Wessex – the area of south-central…