Continuing last month’s exploration of high sites across the country, both well known and less well known, that reflect the profound impact…
The 6th and 7th centuries in England were defined by great social change. Along with the gradual conversion to Christianity in many…
That picture-postcard village you have just driven through might seem an eternal part of the landscape, but this informative and well-illustrated book…
Another in the series of ‘50 Finds from the Portable Antiquities Scheme’, this book focuses on Warwickshire, and demonstrates, once again, the…
Based on archaeological and fragmentary documentary evidence, the Irish Sea was a significant superhighway during prehistory, right through to the medieval period,…
Geology has few laws, but the most encompassing and important is the late 18th- to 19th-century Doctrine of Uniformitarianism – ‘the present…
The Roman army is a well-studied aspect of the ancient empire it served, and tourists frequently visit the remains of legionary fortresses…
Visiting any of the great national museums on the Continent (even the regional and local ones, come to that), students of Roman…
Norwich Castle’s life as a royal fortification was short-lived, and it served much more time as a county gaol. Lucia Marchini pays…
Highways England’s road improvement works between Cambridge and Huntingdon have allowed archaeologists to investigate an entire landscape on a vast scale. Carly…
As this month’s contribution to the ‘great excavations’ mini-series, I turn my attention to a ‘great’ project of Anglo-Saxon archaeology: Sutton Hoo…