Illuminating Iron Age hillforts in Wales In CA 388 we asked, ‘what are hillforts for?’, and Toby Driver’s new book Hillforts of…
Exploring early medieval asceticism on the Skelligs Skellig Michael – the larger of two rocky islets that lie 8 miles (13km) west…
Appreciating the Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales On 28 July, UNESCO added the Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales to its list of…
Angevin innovation, or a medieval white elephant? Dover’s massive castle, rising in tiers above the harbour to the crest of the hill…
Did ‘the Anglo-Saxon migrations’ take place, and were Romano-British leaders replaced by those of Germanic descent? Susan Oosthuizen’s new book, The Emergence…
The latest contribution to our understanding of Neolithic lifestyles in the British Isles comes in the form of a wide-ranging book by…
Are we all Druids now? Tuning in to the BBC’s religious affairs programme on 1 October, Sherds was amused to hear Emma…
State of play Believing that things are not what they used to be is a viral disease that strikes as you enter…
Rock and roll Bits of rock, in various guises, form a running theme in this month’s Sherds, starting with Neolithic ball bearings.…
Contradictory policies David Cameron marked the beginning of the holiday season (now but a distant memory) with a speech on tourism that…