Since CA 428, my columns have focused on prehistoric Britain, and while researching these I read about a series of mines ...

Earliest evidence of humans making fire discovered in Suffolk Excavations at East Farm, Barnham, have uncovered the ...

Happy New Year! I hope you had a lovely break over the Christmas period. Winter always puts me in mind of cosy fireplaces – ...

Overlooking the 2024 excavation within the paddock at Wroxeter Farm. The upstanding remains of the Roman city, including the public baths, can be seen on the opposite side of the road, while the ...

Over the course of eight decades, at least 14 separate hoards of Iron Age metalwork have been recovered from a single field at Snettisham in Norfolk. Now, following the publication of a new book ...

Tre’r Ceiri hillfort, on the Llŷn Peninsula, Gwynedd, was one of the first in Wales to be recorded by antiquaries. Noting its cluster of huts, Thomas Pennant (1726-1798) described it as ‘the most ...

After a brief pause for last month’s celebrations surrounding CA 400, I will now return to my ‘county’ theme, this time exploring Cumbria. In 2010, Rory Stewart – who was at the time the MP for ...

In AD 872-873, a Viking army spent the winter at Torksey in Lincolnshire. Their camp is now well known, but the team that discovered it have since turned their attention to what happened after the ...

The traditional story of Iona’s early medieval monastery ends in tragedy and bloodshed, with the religious community wiped out by vicious Viking raiders. Increasingly, though, the archaeological and ...

This photo shows just a portion of Le Câtillon II, the largest coin hoard yet found in the British Isles, which was discovered in Jersey in 2012. As well as more than 69,000 Celtic coins, the corroded ...

Overlooking the Priors Hall excavation site, where Oxford Archaeology East has revealed the remains of a Roman temple-mausoleum that was subsequently repurposed as a major tile- and brick-making ...

Extensive geophysical investigations over the last ten years have illuminated the long-buried remains of Isurium Brigantum, once the capital of the Romanised Brigantes. Here, Rose Ferraby is carrying ...