The Timeline of Britain
Join us in walking the Timeline from half a million years ago nearly to the present day. Learn all about the archaeology of Britain from these easy-to-read cyber tours, specially adapted from articles in Current Archaeology.
Prehistory
In a gravel pit at Boxgrove, just outside Chichester, the remains of a man have been discovered, half a million ...
Burial chambers of the Neolithic In the Neolithic - the New Stone Age - the older you were, the more ...
A large Bronze Age boat has recently been discovered at Dover. Keith Parfitt, of the Canterbury Archaeological Trust, reports ...
The Celts were warriors, and the most prominent remains of the Iron Age are the great hillforts, surrounded by banks ...
The great Iron Age hoards discovered at Snettisham in Norfolk form the richest Iron Age treasure ever discovered in this ...
The Romans
A rich burial dating to within 20 years after the Roman conquest has just been excavated in a gravel quarry ...
Most Roman towns were sited either over previous towns, or over Roman forts. London was unusual in that it appears ...
Roman documents discovered Probably the most important - and certainly the most dramatic discoveries made in Roman Britain in the ...
Roman Britain does not just consist of grand buildings. There are also smaller buildings out in the countryside, and at ...
While the Romans were civilising England, life was very different story in Northern Scotland, and particularly in the outer isles, ...
Roman mosaics are perhaps the most spectacular Roman remains in Britain. Many of the finest come from Roman villas, where ...
In the early 4th century, a troop of boatmen were transferred from one end of the Roman Empire to the ...
Saxons and Vikings
Has King Arthur been discovered at Tintagel? Tintagel, on the North coast of Cornwall, is famed in legend as the ...
In the 7th century AD, a King - it was surely no less - received a magnificent burial at Sutton ...
What happened to London after the end of Roman rule? Bede calls it a 'mart of many nations' yet for ...
Perhaps the biggest disruption in the Hebrides was the advent of the Vikings. But what remained of them and what ...
On Christmas Day 886, King Alfred, exasperated by the attacks of the Danes, finally decided to abandon the undefended 'open' ...
When did the typical English village begin? That is, when did the outlying farms join together to become a nucleated ...
A major Anglo-Saxon cathedral has been revealed - directly under the flagstones of the nave of Canterbury Cathedral. To everyone's ...
The Middle Ages
Norwich was the second largest city in Medieval Britain: why? In recent years a number of major sites covering more ...
In the Middle Ages, life was communal, and the basic building structure was the open hall. Even comparatively grand structures, ...
The medieval castle is one of the great glories of British archaeology. The finest are those in North Wales, the ...
Before the conquest of Wales by Edward I in 1283, the Welsh Kingdoms were flourishing. Yet archaeologically, little is known ...
Newark Castle has always been something of a problem. The west front, facing out onto the River Trent, is a ...
Post-medieval
The closing years of the independent Scottish kingdom were turbulent times in the Anglo-Scottish borders. When in 1603, King James ...
In the 18th and 19th centuries, hundreds of thousands of people crossed the Atlantic to a New World in America ...
Bonus features!
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