Sometimes an artefact can create a powerful flash of recognition, linking your own experiences with those of someone who lived centuries earlier.…
All that glitters is not gold? According to the latest research on the Staffordshire Hoard, it certainly seems so. Ongoing investigations are…
What lies beneath the ground at Stonehenge? A major initiative to map the geophysics of some 12 square kilometres of surrounding landscape…
This issue of CA has a watery theme. We start with Graeme Young’s account of excavating burnt mounds in the wetlands of…
When archaeologists announced they had found the body of King Richard III beneath a car park on the site of Leicester’s Grey…
When a hole appeared in the summit of Silbury Hill, English Heritage had a crisis on their hands. As a major conservation…
An 11th-century jaunt across Lough Corrib, Co. Galway, in a sleek logboat ended in disaster. A mishap cracked the hull open, forcing…
What are the origins of the classic English village? Once believed to be an Anglo-Saxon or Viking import, the appearance of this…
On the 10th February, under a cloak of secrecy, the remarkable artefacts in the Staffordshire Hoard were reunited for the first time…
When Martin Bates left his geophysical equipment to take its readings and wandered down to the beach at Happisburgh he made a…
When was Britain first colonised by early humans? The famous Boxgrove bones, found in the 1990s, date back about 500,000 years, and…