When I joined Current Archaeology (as Editorial Assistant) in 2011, the first issue I worked on was CA 259. I can’t decide…
Can social value save archaeology from extinction? As CIfA’s code of conduct states, ‘fuller understanding of the past provided by archaeology is…
Around 4,000 years ago, a teenaged girl was laid to rest in what today is Northumberland, about 12km north-west of Newcastle. She…
Tracing life and death on the edge of the Northumberland Coastal Plain Recent excavations on the south-western part of the Northumberland Coastal…
This month’s cover story takes us to the western fringe of the early medieval Christian world: the isolated islet of Skellig Michael,…
From Spartacus to Maximus Decimus Meridius, images of gladiators and their life-or-death struggles in the Roman arena maintain a powerful hold today…
The island of Rousay is only around four miles long, but it boasts such an extraordinary richness of archaeological remains – with…
Happy New Year! This month’s cover story features an extraordinary Anglo-Saxon find from Northamptonshire: the Harpole Treasure. This necklace, the richest of…
Excavating early medieval Britain’s most significant female burial Archaeological work just outside Northampton has uncovered an internationally significant burial, furnished with a…
The evolution of St James’s Palace from leper hospital to royal court Buckingham Palace has been the main London residence of the…