This month’s ‘cover star’ is a medieval cameo that may have been lost by a pilgrim visiting Leiston Abbey in Suffolk. It…
What was life like in Londinium when the first Romans arrived? In the shadows of St Paul’s Cathedral, at the site of…
In 1929, a bright young scholar named Eric Birley arrived at Vindolanda, the Roman fort and settlement lying just south of Hadrian’s…
The religious reforms of Henry VIII changed not only English ecclesiastical life, they also tore into the social fabric of England. The…
When I launched Current Archaeology in 1967 I never thought that we would ever reach issue 300. To my surprise, 12,000 pages…
What is the lost island of Drumclay, as featured on this month’s cover? Established in the 8th century, on the shore of…
What do we really know about the Vikings? Yes, they raided, and they hoarded (as illustrated by our richly tangled cover shot).…
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…