I have now examined the archaeology of every county in Britain bar one – Wiltshire. This was no accident, for I have…
It was long thought that huge and complex monuments like Mount Pleasant in Dorset had developed over many centuries – but new…
In my previous column (CA 370), I examined Yorkshire’s prehistoric archaeology. This month, I am moving forward chronologically to explore the Roman,…
Between 30 BC and the 3rd century AD, during which period Egypt was a province of the Roman Empire, a practice developed…
Hillforts, arguably the most Romantic and certainly the most monumentally impressive of archaeological sites in Britain, are currently undergoing a renaissance. Fieldwork…
This is a lucid and business-like report on developer-funded digs in the northern and eastern environs of the legionary fortress at Chester.…
Concentrating around Southgate Street, Hurst’s meticulous open-area investigations revealed the Roman legionary headquarters, over which he discovered remains of the later Roman…
The Ness of Brodgar in Orkney is ‘a site of superlatives’. So write the authors of this absorbing new book about a…
Despite the title, this book is about far more than the archaeology of Roman Cambridge and its western hinterland. It includes associated…
Hugh Willmott’s important new book seeks to redress the balance by providing a more-rounded and -nuanced explanation of the processes involved in…
Recent assessment of a unique burial assemblage from the Isle of Man has helped illuminate a rare type of funerary practice also…