In a gravel pit at Boxgrove, just outside Chichester, the remains of a man have been discovered, half a million years old.…
Roman mosaics are perhaps the most spectacular Roman remains in Britain. Many of the finest come from Roman villas, where they reflect…
In the early 4th century, a troop of boatmen were transferred from one end of the Roman Empire to the other. Abandoning…
Has King Arthur been discovered at Tintagel? Tintagel, on the North coast of Cornwall, is famed in legend as the home of…
In the 7th century AD, a King – it was surely no less – received a magnificent burial at Sutton Hoo, in…
What happened to London after the end of Roman rule? Bede calls it a ‘mart of many nations’ yet for long the…
Perhaps the biggest disruption in the Hebrides was the advent of the Vikings. But what remained of them and what trace did…
On Christmas Day 886, King Alfred, exasperated by the attacks of the Danes, finally decided to abandon the undefended ‘open’ site of…
When did the typical English village begin? That is, when did the outlying farms join together to become a nucleated village? Professor…
A major Anglo-Saxon cathedral has been revealed – directly under the flagstones of the nave of Canterbury Cathedral. To everyone’s surprise, the…
Norwich was the second largest city in Medieval Britain: why? In recent years a number of major sites covering more than 20…