This month’s ‘cover star’ is a medieval cameo that may have been lost by a pilgrim visiting Leiston Abbey in Suffolk. It…
Mesolithic hunter-gatherers have traditionally been seen as powerless in the face of their environment. Rather than tailoring it to their needs with…
Mick Aston passed away on 24 June. His passion for archaeology inspired countless Time Team viewers to follow in his footsteps, including…
Tracking the movement of ancient armies is notoriously difficult. On those occasions when a mobile force threw up a bank and ditch…
Comparisons with Pompeii or Tutankhamen’s tomb are easily overused when attempting to convey the excitement of a new archaeological discovery. Recent media…
What was life really like for Medieval peasants? Renowned as the epitome of poverty, they appear as stock images performing hard manual…
The Irish Potato Famine, or Great Hunger, took a terrible toll. Between the million who died and the million more who emigrated…
So it really is him, then. Unusually for archaeology all the strands of evidence point to the same conclusion. And what a…
Prehistoric standing stones are famously enigmatic, but some monuments may have more secrets in their past than was previously supposed. Recent excavations…
Orkney could be an open-air archaeology museum. Sites such as Skara Brae and Maes Howe fire the imagination with their spectacular preservation.…
Covering the end of Time Team feels like writing an obituary. The programme has been there for much of my personal journey…