Today, Smallhythe Place in Kent is best known as a bohemian rural retreat once owned by the Victorian actress Ellen Terry and…
When I launched Current Archaeology in 1967 I never thought that we would ever reach issue 300. To my surprise, 12,000 pages…
What is the lost island of Drumclay, as featured on this month’s cover? Established in the 8th century, on the shore of…
What do we really know about the Vikings? Yes, they raided, and they hoarded (as illustrated by our richly tangled cover shot).…
All that glitters is not gold? According to the latest research on the Staffordshire Hoard, it certainly seems so. Ongoing investigations are…
What lies beneath the ground at Stonehenge? A major initiative to map the geophysics of some 12 square kilometres of surrounding landscape…
This issue of CA has a watery theme. We start with Graeme Young’s account of excavating burnt mounds in the wetlands of…
When archaeologists announced they had found the body of King Richard III beneath a car park on the site of Leicester’s Grey…
When a hole appeared in the summit of Silbury Hill, English Heritage had a crisis on their hands. As a major conservation…
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…