Examining a new addition to the Hadrian’s Wall ‘souvenir’ vessels Over the last 300 years, a handful of enamelled bronze vessels, most…
In 1985 I presented a population graph for Britain extending from the Mesolithic to recent times, which was characterised by periodic ups…
When Andrew Selkirk asked me to append some comments to Mike Baillie’s piece on volcanic “events”, it prompted the notion that I…
Immortalised in Henry V as ‘this wooden O’, the Curtain Theatre in Shoreditch was home to Shakespeare’s company of players until the…
Anglo-Saxon skeletons have been surfacing for almost a century in the fields of Oakington. Now a new project has laid bare the…
An entire Neolithic settlement, predating Skara Brae, has been found on the tiny Orkney Island of Wyre.…
Were lepers reviled as 'unclean' outcasts of the Middle Ages? Recent excavations cast doubt on this enduring belief…
We are delighted to announce that Tony Wilmott is the winner of this year’s prestigious Archaeologist of the Year award. Currently…
This year’s winner of Book of the Year 2012 is Becoming an Archaeologist: a guide to professional pathways by Joe Flatman, as…
This year the Research Project of the Year 2012 awards went to Massacre at Fin Cop, featured in CA 255. Iron Age…
During the Celtic Tiger economic boom, Ireland experienced a period of prosperity which led to an unprecedented ‘golden age’ for commercial archaeology.…