David Breeze’s new book on Hadrian’s Wall began as a series of lectures to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Even wonderful…
How do you explain the latest thinking about a 73-mile-long monument to the public? Visitors to Hadrian’s Wall in recent years may…
The 73-mile length of Hadrian’s Wall, as well as the forts and structures associated with it, has yielded thousands of intriguing objects…
Ongoing research into Winchester Cathedral’s mortuary chests – one of which is shown – is providing vital new evidence about the identities…
Post-excavation analysis of an Iron Age bark shield – the only one of its kind ever found in Europe – is greatly…
In what is thought to be the first excavation of its kind, the remains of a 19th-century Scottish whisky distillery have been…
A recent project analysing food residue on pottery from a medieval rural settlement in Raunds, Northamptonshire, has yielded detailed new information on…
A previously unknown Roman marching camp has been discovered in Ayr, adding new evidence to our understanding of the Roman conquest of…
In CA 338, we discussed proteomics – the study of proteins – and how it is quickly growing as a new way…
New DNA research into the evolution and spread of the plague has shown that during the first documented pandemic (AD 541-750) there…