What should I call my book? As some of you may know, I am spending my retirement, or semi-retirement, on writing what…
We are delighted to announce that Time Team will return to the small screen very soon! The new series of the long-running…
Four miles east of Newcastle upon Tyne, Hadrian’s Wall comes to an end. It’s not quite at the sea — Tynemouth is…
Chesters is the nicest of the Hadrian's Wall forts. It lies 20 miles west of Newcastle and forms the beginning of the…
After such sensational discoveries it was inevitable that archaeologists would return to Sutton Hoo. Rupert Bruce-Mitford was the first to pick up…
This was no ordinary burial. The group that gathered on a grassy promontory overlooking the River Deben around AD 625 was participating…
One should not start a project that one cannot complete. Having started writing a blog on the first day of my pilgrimage…
The Hadrian’s Wall pilgrimage is going well. The Pilgrimage is one of the great events of British archaeology. It began…
Thirty years ago, David Breeze and Brian Dobson wrote a history of Hadrian’s Wall from the archaeological evidence. Still in print in…
The Time team is Britain’s longest running archaeology TV series. Here, Professor Mick Aston, the leader of the Time Team, reveals the…
In a gravel pit at Boxgrove, just outside Chichester, the remains of a man have been discovered, half a million years old.…