Britain's favourite archaeology magazine
e are a small group of Metal Detectorists, and amateur geologists and archaeologists. We enjoy travelling to rural areas and with full backing of the local land-owner. We are aware of the portable antiquities scheme. The group is run by myself someone who has completed a scientific archaeology masters and completed several digs in Bulgaria – specialising in Romano-British period.
More than 500 years after his death, members of the public can look King Richard III in the eye once … [Read More...]
University of Leicester archaeologists have found the lost church where Richard III was buried over … [Read More...]
On Monday 4th February the results of tests on a skeleton found beneath a Leicester carpark were … [Read More...]
In CA 274, Mick explained how his local research project examining the origins of Winscombe in … [Read More...]
In his new bi-monthly column, Mick Aston guides us through the trials and triumphs of local … [Read More...]
This summer the Museum of London will return to Syon Park, Hounslow, with digging opportunities for … [Read More...]
It used to be thought that only high-class houses had survived from the Medieval period. Radiocarbon … [Read More...]
What was life really like for Medieval peasants? Renowned as the epitome of poverty, they appear as … [Read More...]
In September 2012, archaeologists from the University of Leicester announced a significant … [Read More...]
Roman documents discovered Probably the most important - and certainly the most dramatic … [Read More...]
Burial chambers of the Neolithic In the Neolithic - the New Stone Age - the older you were, the … [Read More...]
Scientific investigative techniques are constantly changing, improving and significantly enhancing … [Read More...]
The field of archaeology covers the full extent of human existence, through time and across the … [Read More...]
What was life really like for Medieval peasants? Renowned as the epitome of poverty, they appear as stock images performing hard manual labour in the margins of illustrated manuscripts. With the squalor they faced memorably lampooned by Monty Python, among others, it has always been assumed that the ramshackle hovels they called home have long … [Read More...]
The past is constantly being re-written. Across the country there are hundreds of excavations going on. It’s back-breaking work in often tough conditions, but the findings are essential for our understanding of our past. Yet who has the time to visit them all and put their findings into context? We do! For 40 years Current Archaeology has been … [Read More...]
Current Archaeology has a sister magazine - Current WORLD Archaeology Current World Archaeology covers the world from the first emergence of man up to yesterday: from Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Near East, to Anatolia, Classical Greece and Rome, as well as Asia and the Far East. Launched in 2003 as the sister magazine to Current Archaeology, we report on … [Read More...]
