The 1970s were an exciting time for British archaeology, with large-scale open-area excavations in many historic city centres revealing a previously unsuspected…
How do you begin to analyse a corroded mass of almost 70,000 Celtic coins? Neil Mahrer guides us through the painstaking process…
Archaeologists excavating a 15,000-year-old campsite at Les Varines, Jersey, have recovered ten fragments of stone decorated with hundreds of interweaving lines.…
It was long thought that huge and complex monuments like Mount Pleasant in Dorset had developed over many centuries – but new…
Excavation just outside Corby has shed vivid light on the construction of a Roman villa, the reuse of an enigmatic religious building,…
Four hundred years ago, the Mayflower carried around 100 would-be colonists across the Atlantic to found Plymouth Plantation in Massachusetts. What can…
Now on display at the Museum of London Docklands, London’s largest late Bronze Age hoard is revealing new details of life in…
Investigations beneath the floorboards of Oxburgh Hall, a great moated country house near King’s Lynn, have revealed a remarkable time capsule of…
Where did the Stonehenge bluestones come from? Scientific advances are allowing us to pinpoint the outcrops that they were quarried from with…
Long-running improvement works on a section of the A1 have uncovered rare traces of how contact with the Roman Empire transformed a…