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Category Archive: News, Reviews, Television, Time Team

Time Team final episode – review

Mar 25, 2013 Carly Hilts News, Reviews, Television, Time Team 49

So that’s it! Last night saw the screening of the final episode of Time Team, notwithstanding a few ‘specials’ next year and a new project called ‘Dig Village’...

Pub Dig 4: Cavaliers and Cock Ale

Apr 27, 2012 Carly Hilts Reviews, Television 2

After four weeks of fun, frivolity and fascinating finds, the first series of Pub Dig series has come to an end. Their final foray took us to Banbury, today an attractive market town – but...

Time Team: secrets of the Saxon gold

Apr 24, 2012 Carly Hilts Reviews, Television, Time Team 0

The discovery of the Staffordshire hoard (see CA 236) in July 2009 was one of the most exciting archaeological finds of the last decade. Since then, a dizzying array of interdisciplinary research has...

Meet the Romans with Mary Beard

Apr 23, 2012 Carly Hilts News, Reviews, Television 0

In this, the first episode of three, Mary Beard (Cambridge's Professor of Classics) sets out to find the human stories behind the dazzling spectacle of ancient Rome.

Pub Dig 3 – pints and pilgrims

Apr 19, 2012 Carly Hilts News, Reviews, Television 0

Another week, another micro-dig courtesy of the Pub Dig team, and this time Rory and Paul are at the Six Bells in St Albans, Herts. Built in c.1600, this is the only pub standing within the walls of...

Missing any copies of CA?
Jul 10, 2017 0

If you’ve got gaps in your collection of Current...
Roman writing tablets found at Vindolanda
Jul 10, 2017 0

A new cache of well-preserved Roman writing tablets, some...
Discoveries from the deep: sailing aboard the Swan in the...
Jul 06, 2017 0

In 1653, a small Cromwellian warship was lost off the west...
Summer of Love
Jul 04, 2017 0

As well as marking 50 years since the launch of CA, this...
Event: University Archaeology Day
Jun 06, 2017 0

University Archaeology Day Date: Thursday 22 June...