What are borders for? It is a question that has recently gone mainstream. Debate about ‘hard’ or ‘soft’ borders finds a parallel in attempts…
Hadrian’s Wall has a special place in British archaeology and especially so in the history of Current Archaeology, being a place that…
Legend has it that the Rothwell charnel chapel was discovered when a grave digger tumbled into an underground vault stacked with bones.…
More than 300 people came along to celebrate 40 years of Hadrian’s Wall research at our special conference on 2-4 September, organised…
Neolithic tombs are often seen as ‘houses for the dead’. Striking similarities between the residences of the living and repositories for the…
Current Archaeology Live! presents a special conference, in partnership with Durham University: Hadrian’s Wall: 40 Years of Frontier Research 2-4 September 2016,…
For decades it was believed that the army on Hadrian’s Wall peacefully co-existed with a local farming community flourishing under the pax…
Four miles east of Newcastle upon Tyne, Hadrian’s Wall comes to an end. It’s not quite at the sea — Tynemouth is…
Chesters is the nicest of the Hadrian's Wall forts. It lies 20 miles west of Newcastle and forms the beginning of the…
One should not start a project that one cannot complete. Having started writing a blog on the first day of my pilgrimage…