In this month’s ‘Science Notes’, we are discussing yet another form of dating: uranium-thorium (U-Th) dating, also known as uranium-series dating. Readers…
Dublin is known for the exceptional anaerobic conditions that have preserved swathes of medieval archaeology there (see CA 328), and a recent…
In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Reformation and the Civil War reduced a great many of Britain’s abbeys and castles to…
Perched on a peninsula in the heart of the Orkney archipelago, the Ness of Brodgar is a truly remarkable site. Long-running excavations…
With a mixture of personal and archaeological anecdotes, this short book gives a real insight into the life and studies of Brenda…
This collection of papers by Mark Hassall, for many years a lecturer at UCL’s Institute of Archaeology and co-editor of the epigraphic…
Maryport stands out among the Roman forts in northern Britain. Popular accounts of such sites normally focus on providing a structural biography…
This is the second volume in the New Visions of the Countryside of Roman Britain series. The first volume, published in 2016…
Between the 7th and 12th centuries, criminals who were put to death in Anglo-Saxon England were often interred not in community graveyards,…
More than 4,500 years ago, a hugely popular cultural phenomenon – today known as the Bell Beaker Complex – captured the prehistoric…