A selection of the most luxurious of English embroideries, much desired by the rich and powerful of medieval Europe, have been brought together…
Archaeological work beside the River Wensum in Norfolk has revealed more than 80 rare Middle Saxon log coffins and plank-lined graves, preserved…
Archaeology is alive with uncertainties. Time and again new sites or technologies upend longstanding theories. All this month’s featured sites show the…
Exploring the Rothwell Charnel Chapel Project Why were bones placed in charnel chapels, and just how common was this practice in medieval…
Legend has it that the Rothwell charnel chapel was discovered when a grave digger tumbled into an underground vault stacked with bones.…
The Mary Rose museum at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard was reopened 471 years to the day since the sinking of Henry VIII’s flagship…
Excavators were repeatedly drawn to Glastonbury Abbey during the 20th century, but the fruits of their labours rarely made it into print.…
Glastonbury has a knack of attracting stories. It is a place where legends of a once and future king and feet in…
More than 300 people came along to celebrate 40 years of Hadrian’s Wall research at our special conference on 2-4 September, organised…
Today (Friday 9 September) is MOLA’s Time Truck’s last day at Bishops Square. Surrounded by tall commercial buildings, behind the high-end cosmetics…