Joe Flatman explores half a century of reports from the past. A selection of articles mentioned by Joe Flatman in this month’s…
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Joe Flatman explores half a century of reports from the past. A selection of articles mentioned by Joe Flatman in this month’s…
Roman finds from the Tees at Piercebridge and beyond Ritual or rubbish – how should we interpret objects that ended their days…
Joe Flatman explores half a century of reports from the past. A selection of articles mentioned by Joe Flatman in this month’s…
Angevin innovation, or a medieval white elephant? Dover’s massive castle, rising in tiers above the harbour to the crest of the hill…
Secrets of a unique Viking Age collection from south-west Scotland Buried c.AD 900, the Galloway Hoard is thought to be Scotland’s earliest-known…
Joe Flatman explores half a century of reports from the past. A selection of articles mentioned by Joe Flatman in this month’s…
Joe Flatman explores half a century of reports from the past. A selection of articles mentioned by Joe Flatman in this month’s…
In mid-April, CA travelled to Butser Ancient Farm in Hampshire – our first site visit of 2021! – to catch up with…
The 1970s were an exciting time for British archaeology, with large-scale open-area excavations in many historic city centres revealing a previously unsuspected…
Joe Flatman explores half a century of reports from the past. A selection of articles mentioned by Joe Flatman in this month’s…
Last March, museums and heritage sites across the world closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In response, we created 'Heritage from Home'…
Arguably, one of the biggest challenges that continually faces archaeology is accessibility. While that can be interpreted in several different ways, what…
I am aware that, in my tour of Current Archaeology’s ‘county archaeologies’, I have yet to step outside England. In the next…
How do you begin to analyse a corroded mass of almost 70,000 Celtic coins? Neil Mahrer guides us through the painstaking process…
Recent analysis of 12 teeth, first excavated at the Palaeolithic site of La Cotte de St Brelade in Jersey between 1910 and…
A large Anglo-Saxon cemetery has recently been discovered at Overstone in Northamptonshire. With 154 interments, it is the largest burial ground from…
The remains of a Victorian bathhouse have recently been discovered beneath a car park in the Mayfield area of Manchester. The site…
The remains of an extravagant but previously unknown garden from the Elizabethan period have recently been revealed at Coleshill in Warwickshire. The…
Analysis of more than 300 human skeletons, recovered from three different medieval burial sites across Cambridge, has provided interesting new details of…
Recent research has potentially identified an intriguing new connection between Stonehenge and a partially dismantled stone circle in south-west Wales – furthering…
This latest book in the ’50 Finds’ series from the Portable Antiquities Scheme is the first to focus on a specific artefact…
This book provides a brief history of how humans have dealt with their dead over the centuries – mainly focusing on the…
More than a decade in the making, this book was well worth the wait. It is a thorough compendium of knowledge on…
Classical Caledonia explores the antiquarian rediscovery of Scotland’s Roman remains, and how these have influenced and continue to influence Scottish identity, impacting…
Sheffield Castle is a rare archaeological treat put together by a university team working with local authorities and professional archaeologists. It is…
This year's Current Archaeology Live! conference ran from 5-7 March, and took place completely online. As we weren't able to facilitate the…