Recent analysis of 12 teeth, first excavated at the Palaeolithic site of La Cotte de St Brelade in Jersey between 1910 and…
It is well known that the Industrial revolution led to a staggering shift in the global nitrogen cycle – a key process…
The Picts remain one of the more elusive early medieval kingdoms of Britain, and our knowledge of their culture is still rather…
A recent study, conducted by researchers from the Centre for Human Bioarchaeology at the Museum of London and Durham University, has looked…
The long-lost moat of Newark Castle has been rediscovered during a £60m project led by Severn Trent to upgrade Newark’s sewers. The…
CITiZAN, a community archaeology project focused on vulnerable intertidal and coastal sites, has won the Arts, Culture, and Heritage prize at the…
The Isles of Scilly are known for their sandy beaches and shallow tidal waters, but the archipelago was not always like this.…
An ambitious project to conduct the largest geophysical survey to-date of the island of Rousay in Orkney has begun. It is being…
It remains one of the biggest archaeological mysteries: why do so many hillforts, particularly across Scotland, appear to have undergone a significant…
Excavations at Caochanan Ruadha, a previously identified Mesolithic site in the Cairngorm Mountains of the Scottish Highlands, have revealed evidence of a…
The Reverend William Greenwell (1820-1918) was a British antiquarian who, throughout a long career of excavating prehistoric barrows, accumulated a large collection…