This summer the Museum of London will return to Syon Park, Hounslow, with digging opportunities for adult and children, it has been announced. Having previously focussed on investigating the house of Sir Richard Wynne, a Parliamentarian on whose land the 1641 Battle of Brentford was fought as anti-Royalist forces tried to stop Prince Rupert’s troops reaching [...]
VIDEO: The search for Richard III – Richard Buckley at CA Live! 2013
May 1, 2013 By Filed Under: Articles, Live, News, Richard III
Cradle of Stonehenge: interview with David Jacques
April 29, 2013 By Filed Under: News
In CA 271 we brought you news of astonishing Mesolithic finds at Vespasian’s Camp on Salisbury Plain, a potentially game-changing site for our understanding of the Stonehenge landscape. With the site about to star in the first episode of a new BBC archaeology series, we caught up with project director, Buckingham University’s David Jacques, to find [...]
Scale models: George and the dragon
April 23, 2013 By Filed Under: News
Standing just 4cm high, St George raises his lance to strike a fatal blow against the tiny dragon staring back at him. His outstretched hand probably once gripped his scaly foe by the tail, though they have since broken apart. Discovered by a metal detectorist in the Carlisle area last April, these silver gilt figures [...]
Roman in the snow: hundreds visit NW Cambridge Site open day
Almost 500 people braved the snow to visit the Northwest Cambridge Site’s extensive archaeological remains during an open day last month. A 14ha excavation by Cambridge Archaeological Unit has revealed Roman activity spanning four centuries, as well as archaeological features stretching back to the Middle Bronze Age (c.1500 BC), suggesting that the rolling green farmland northwest [...]
Cambridge’s Roman development
April 18, 2013 By Filed Under: News
The rolling green farmland northwest of Cambridge was once crowded with bustling Roman settlements and industry, recent excavations suggest. Cambridge Archaeological Unit has investigated 14ha outside the city, revealing Roman activity spanning four centuries, as well as archaeological features stretching back to the Middle Bronze Age (c.1500 BC). Zig-zag ditches thought to represent practice trenches from [...]
Murmillo magic
April 11, 2013 By Filed Under: News
A tiny amber amulet shaped like a gladiator’s helmet has been discovered in the Walbrook area by Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA). Measuring just over 1cm across, the object was found amongst the remains of a demolished Roman building, together with large amounts of pottery and animal bone. It is hoped that analysis of these [...]
London’s roaming temple – new parts of the Mithraeum found
April 11, 2013 By Filed Under: News
Britain’s most-moved Roman site, the Temple of Mithras in London, is one step closer to returning to its original location after recent work by Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA). Since it was uncovered in the 1950s the third-century temple has been completely dismantled, shifted 90m, rebuilt, taken apart again, and is currently in storage in [...]
ArchaeoHaiku
We challenged the archaeological world on Twitter to come up with heritage-themed haiku… and they didn’t disappoint!
Time Team final episode – review
So that’s it! Last night saw the screening of the final episode of Time Team, notwithstanding a few ‘specials’ next year and a new project called ‘Dig Village’ currently in development. Sunday tea-times will never be the same again. Rather than one of the three-day digs for which the Team has become famous, this was a compilation [...]
Mick Aston’s latest dig
March 12, 2013 By Filed Under: Andrew Selkirk, News, Time Team
Mick Aston is best known as the leader of the Time Team, running around telling other people what to do and where to dig. But Mick is someone who practises what he preaches and for many years now he has been investigating his home village at Winscombe, near Western-Super-Mare in Somerset. Here he practises ‘total [...]
Roman Colchester: burning insights
March 8, 2013 By Filed Under: News
Following the discovery of unusual ringfenced burials from Roman Colchester, further evidence of Camulodunum’s diverse funerary practices comes with the discovery of a rare bustum or pyre burial, found during a Colchester Archaeological Trust excavation on the site of the city’s Roman garrison. Closer examination of the cremation yielded something more elusive still: traces of [...]
DNA detective work: identifying Richard III
March 8, 2013 By Filed Under: News, Richard III
Following questions about the validity of using a genetic sample from a modern day relative of Richard III to help identify his remains, Dr Turi King of the University of Leicester guides us through the process she used. I’m afraid I must start with a quick DNA primer! I promise to keep it short. Our DNA can [...]
Richard III exhibition opens in Leicester
February 8, 2013 By Filed Under: News, Richard III
A new free exhibition dedicated to the search for Richard III opened today (8 Feb) at Leicester’s Guildhall. Richard III: Leicester’s search for a king reveals the archaeological detective work that led to the rediscovery of Greyfriars church, the location of Richard’s grave, and the identification of his remains. Displays place these findings in their [...]
Reconstructing Richard III’s resting place
February 7, 2013 By Filed Under: News, Richard III
Two days after unveiling a reconstruction of the face of Richard III, Leicester experts have now recreated how Greyfriars, his final resting place, might have looked. Built in 1230, Greyfriars was one of the first Franciscan friaries to be established in England, just 6 years after the order came to Britain, but it was completely [...]
Face to face with Richard III
February 6, 2013 By Filed Under: News, Richard III
More than 500 years after his death, members of the public can look King Richard III in the eye once more, following the unveiling of a reconstruction of how he may have looked. Based on human remains found beneath a carpark in Leicester city centre by University of Leicester Archaeological Services, and recently identified as [...]
Richard III: found!
February 4, 2013 By Filed Under: Articles, News, Richard III
The human remains found beneath a city centre carpark last August are ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ those of Richard III.
