The Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project is an unprecedented initiative to survey a vast tract of land around the iconic stones. Now that…
This issue of CA has a watery theme. We start with Graeme Young’s account of excavating burnt mounds in the wetlands of…
When a hole appeared in the summit of Silbury Hill, English Heritage had a crisis on their hands. As a major conservation…
For up to 4,500 years, a series of sunken dug-out canoes have been lying, forgotten, on the bottom of Lough Corrib in…
An 11th-century jaunt across Lough Corrib, Co. Galway, in a sleek logboat ended in disaster. A mishap cracked the hull open, forcing…
What are the origins of the classic English village? Once believed to be an Anglo-Saxon or Viking import, the appearance of this…
Every year on 1 April, the staff of CA eagerly scan as many news sources as we can get our hands on,…
In the first half of the 7th century, the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia was ascending towards the zenith of its power, hard-won…
On the 10th February, under a cloak of secrecy, the remarkable artefacts in the Staffordshire Hoard were reunited for the first time…
Between 850,000 and 950,000 years ago a small party set out across the upper reaches of an estuary. The group was made…