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…
When Martin Bates left his geophysical equipment to take its readings and wandered down to the beach at Happisburgh he made a…
A fragment of human pelvis excavated in Winchester is ‘very likely’ to be part of the remains of King Alfred the Great…
We always look forward to escaping from the office to meet archaeologists working to uncover the secrets of the past – their…
The Early Anglo-Saxon tradition of burying the dead in their finery has bequeathed some of Britain’s most spectacular archaeology, from the regal…
Had you arrived 400,000 years ago, the Thames Estuary would offer a world-class safari. Lions, rhinos, monkeys, and elephants all quenched their…
So it really is him, then. Unusually for archaeology all the strands of evidence point to the same conclusion. And what a…