Frome Hoard
The Portable Antiquities Scheme has today released news of the Frome Hoard, a cache of 52,503 Roman coins dating to the 3rd century, found by metal detectorist Dave Crisp near Frome in Somerset in 201...
Current Archaeology Awards 2010
Current Archaeology is pleased to announce the winners of their 2010 awards, presented 27 February 2010, at the British Museum as part of the Archaeology 2010 conference.
Mercia
The discovery of the hoard in Staffordshire is interesting, for Staffordshire was near the heart of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia.
Preserving Britain's Glories
When Sir Neil Cossons retired as Chairman of English Heritage in June 2007, his farewell party was held in a building overlooking St Pancras Station. This was a fitting venue given the extent of Neil’...
500,000 BC - Boxgrove
The man who died half a million years ago.
In a gravel pit at Boxgrove, just outside Chichester, the remains of a man have been discovered, half a million years old. Only a shin bone and two teeth were...
Indefatigable Attenborough
On Monday, 12 October 2009, Sir David Attenborough participated in the Cambridge University Personal-Histories in Archaeology project. I was there, along with a capacity crowd of over 700 guests, to l...
Morris and the Prince - and much more
Morris and the Prince
Having just written a new guide to Kelmscott Manor, your diarist has a growing admiration for William Morris, whose country home this was. Morris was a true radical, and his ideas...
- Déjà vu, Stones and bones, Sunspots and destiny, ‘Dr Livingroom, I presume?’, Mosaic funding, A hermit’s life, Leaping to the defence of the church
- Jargon, beauty, the South Downs, a heritage hero, Robin Hood and dragons...
- Allotments, spearing bison, Brookside, Brown's museum, the Olympics, nighthawking...
Silchester
On Sunday (25 th July 2010) we went to Silchester to visit the excavations. The University of Reading team have been digging there for fourteen years now and still have four or five years still to run, ...
London 2010
26 - 28 February, 2010 at the British Museum
Archaeology 2010 brought you all the latest news and views from the archaeological world in a two day conference at the British Museum. It was an amazing l...
Sessions
There are two separate venues for the festival; Cardiff University and National Museum Cardiff. It will therefore be necessary to choose a session for the morning and one for the afternoon each day.
Session Schedule
Click here for a PDF of the latest Full schedule, or see below for the shortened version. Click the links for the abstracts of the session:
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