In last month’s column, I examined a series of sites legacy of the Norman Conquest. One of these was Westminster Abbey, which…
An international team of maritime archaeologists is working to excavate and record the remains of the Rooswijk, an at-risk Dutch wreck off…
An unusual late Bronze Age hoard recently discovered in the west of Cumbria is the first of its kind to be found…
The remains of a cargo ship wrecked in the Bristol Channel over 100 years ago have been identified during routine survey. The…
It has long been known that the early humans who inhabited Gough’s Cave, Somerset, around 15,000 years ago practised cannibalism and modified…
Work to create a new visitor centre at the Old Royal Naval College has uncovered long-lost traces of Greenwich Palace – the…
David Field and David McOmish, with photographs by Steve Speller Amberley Publishing, £16.99 ISBN 978-1445648415 Review David Roberts This brisk and fluent…
M C Bishop Osprey Publishing, £12.99 ISBN 978-1472815880 Review Kate Gilliver Mike Bishop’s beautifully produced volume on the Roman pilum collects a…
Rebecca Haslam and Victoria Ridgeway The British Museum Press, £40.00 ISBN 978-0861592036 Review LM The British Museum is home to archaeological riches…
Edited by Fiona Beglane British Archaeological Reports, £28.00 ISBN 978-1407314587 Review Rena Maguire In 2013, Fáilte Ireland, the national tourism authority, hosted…
Alan Rushworth and Alexandra Croom Oxbow Books, £55.00 ISBN 978-1785700262 Review Rob Collins The Roman fort of Segedunum is better known by…