A major new conference event brought to you by Current Archaeology magazine and the British Museum’s Department of Portable Antiquities and Treasure.…
Current Archaeology, Cardiff University and the National Museum Cardiff are pleased to announce the 2nd annual Archaeology Festival, 6-8 February 2009…
Archaeologists in York have uncovered a Viking house at Hungate earlier this month. The building dates from the mid to late 10th…
A lump of chalk carved to resemble a piglet with snout and floppy ears has been found in the grave of a…
Shakespeare is associated mainly with the Globe and the South Bank. But most of his early plays were first performed at a…
In 2002, launching the first ever ‘Heritage Counts’ digest of statistics on the health of the historic environment, Tessa Jowell, then Secretary…
A tiny fragment of granite and a sherd of pottery, unearthed at the tail end of an excavation in Northern Ireland, signalled…
The world’s media reported in August that a huge timber fence was used to separate ordinary mortals from the privileged classes…
Enamelled bronzes from Roman Britain have turned up all over the Roman world. This poses an interesting question: were Celtic artists making tourist…