A new robust set of radiocarbon dates from the Glastonbury Lake Village in Somerset has allowed researchers to establish a more-precise chronology…
A Neolithic timber circle has recently been identified in Somerset near the village of Priddy. It is the first such monument to…
Explore the latest news from the past is in this month's issue of Current Archaeology!…
Christianity was first brought to Britain by the Romans and it underwent many drastic changes between the time of its initial introduction…
Last month’s ‘great excavation’ explored prehistoric Somerset through the work of John and Bryony Coles along the Sweet Track. In this month’s…
The nearly 10,000-year-old skeleton who came to be known as ‘Cheddar Man’ was found in 1903, in Gough’s Cave at Cheddar Gorge,…
The first project to excavate at Lufton Roman villa since the 1960s has revealed new details of the Somerset site’s famous octagonal…
It has long been known that the early humans who inhabited Gough’s Cave, Somerset, around 15,000 years ago practised cannibalism and modified…