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 [...]
Time Team: the end of an era?
As Time Team ends its run, Jim Mower – an archaeologist and producer for ten years on the programme – reflects on two decades of television archaeology and asks: what’s next? Time Team is the longest running history/archaeology strand in television history. Although often criticised over its lifetime, this is, by any reckoning, a remarkable [...]
Current Archaeology Awards 2013 – Photos
March 5, 2013 By Filed Under: Press
The below photos were taken at the Current Archaeology Awards 2013, held at the University of London’s Senate House as part of the Current Archaeology Live! 2012 conference on 1-2 March 2013. Each image below is to be credited to Current Archaeology/Aerial-Cam
PRESS RELEASE: The Search for Richard III wins prestigious award as Research Excavation of the Year following a record number of votes from the general public
March 5, 2013 By Filed Under: Press
Top honours for Research Excavation of the Year at the prestigious Current Archaeology Awards went to University of Leicester Archaeological Services’ international headline-grabbing discovery of Richard III under a Leicester car park. This astonishing achievement has finally allowed the lurid comments by Tudor chroniclers about the physique of this most controversial king to be objectively assessed. Accepting the [...]
PRESS RELEASE: Canterbury Archaeological Trust wins prestigious award as Rescue Dig of the Year following a record number of votes from the general public
March 5, 2013 By Filed Under: Press
Top honours for Rescue Dig of the Year at the prestigious Current Archaeology Awards went to Canterbury Archaeological Trust for their work at Folkestone Roman villa. First examined in 1924, coastal erosion prompted a re-examination of the site before it was lost forever. This revealed that the villa overlay a major Iron Age port of trade receiving large [...]
PRESS RELEASE: Roman Camps in Britain wins prestigious Book of the Year award following a record number of votes from the general public
March 5, 2013 By Filed Under: Press
Top honours for Book of the Year (sponsored by Oxbow Books) at the prestigious Current Archaeology Awards went to Rebecca Jones for Roman Camps in Britain (published by Amberley). This volume brings to life the mostly ephemeral traces of the temporary fortifications built by the Roman army while engaged in military campaigns or construction projects in Britain. [...]
PRESS RELEASE: Time Team archaeologist Phil Harding wins Current Archaeology’s prestigious Archaeologist of the Year award for 2013, following a record number of votes from the general public.
March 5, 2013 By Filed Under: Press
Top honours for Archaeologist of the Year at the prestigious Current Archaeology Awards went to Phil Harding. A household name following his appearance on 20 seasons of Channel 4’s Time Team, Phil’s enthusiasm for archaeology has inspired countless others to enter the discipline. As well as digging at some of Britain’s most iconic sites with [...]
Lifetime achievement award for Mick Aston
Professor Mick Aston has been presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2012 British Archaeological Awards.
British Archaeological Awards results
July 9, 2012 By Filed Under: News
The results are in: the winners of this year’s British Archaeological Awards were announced today (9 July) at the British Museum in London.
Sheffield University, Department of Archaeology
April 17, 2011 By Filed Under: Universities
Undergraduate courses: Single Honours:
Archaeology BA,
Archaeology BSc,
Classical and Historical Archaeology BA
Joint Honours:
Archaeology and History BA,
Archaeology and Slavonic Studies BA,
Archaeology and Hispanic Studies BA,
Archaeology and French BA,
Archaeology and German BA,
Archaeology, Religion, Theology and the Bible BA,
A leading research and teaching Department housed in a custom-designed building with laboratories and spacious research school accommodation. The Department was founded in 1976 and has now grown to become the largest Department of Archaeology outside London.
Birmingham University, Inst. for Archaeology & Antiquity
April 17, 2011 By Filed Under: Universities
Undergraduate courses: Archaeology BA,
Archaeology and Ancient History BA,
Archaeology and Anthropology BA,
Archaeology and Ancient History Joint Honours BA,
Geology and Archaeology BSc,
Teaches Archaeology, Ancient History, Classics, Ancient Near East studies, Assyriology, Egyptology, Forensic and Environmental Archaeology. Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek studies. Training excavations in Britain and abroad.
