Today, Smallhythe Place in Kent is best known as a bohemian rural retreat once owned by the Victorian actress Ellen Terry and her daughter Edy Craig. As this month’s cover feature reveals, however, the surrounding fields preserve evidence of much earlier activity, including a medieval royal shipyard and a previously…
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I have now examined the archaeology of every county in Britain bar one – Wiltshire. This was no accident, for I have…
Tracing the impact – and the experiences – of the Roman army in Britain A major new exhibition at the British Museum…
The county of Gloucestershire encompasses a wide variety of landscapes, from the mix of urban and traditional farming communities (now more often…
After last month’s rural rambles around the archaeology of central and south Somerset, I will now head north and east to consider…
Investigating an Iron Age enigma Last summer, excavations at Warham Camp – a monumental Iron Age enclosure in north Norfolk – revealed…
Charlotte Frearson, Jennifer French, and Andrew Gardner discuss why any prospective undergraduate should give the discipline serious consideration.…
Ian Haynes, Professor of Archaeology at Newcastle University, discusses the challenges in providing students with a thorough archaeological education and explains how…
Is this the time to pursue a course in archaeology? The word from the field that reaches the Current Archaeology offices is…
Don Henson, Director of CASPAR (Centre for Audio-Visual Study and Practice in Archaeology) explains how an innovative new centre at the Institute…
In a gravel pit at Boxgrove, just outside Chichester, the remains of a man have been discovered, half a million years old.…
Burial chambers of the Neolithic In the Neolithic – the New Stone Age – the older you were, the more important you…
A large Bronze Age boat has recently been discovered at Dover. Keith Parfitt, of the Canterbury Archaeological Trust, reports.…
The Celts were warriors, and the most prominent remains of the Iron Age are the great hillforts, surrounded by banks and ditches…
The great Iron Age hoards discovered at Snettisham in Norfolk form the richest Iron Age treasure ever discovered in this country.…
A rich burial dating to within 20 years after the Roman conquest has just been excavated in a gravel quarry at Stanway,…
