Examining a well-connected Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Broughton Lodge The diverse grave goods excavated at a 6th-century ...
It has been a particularly busy few weeks at CA, with visits to Nottingham and Carlisle and, of course, our annual conference ...
Current Archaeology Live! 2026 will take place on 28 February 2026 at University College London’s Institute of Education, where last year 600 of you joined us to hear the latest news on important ...
In the winter of AD 872-873 a Viking army made camp at Torksey in Lincolnshire. Dawn Hadley and Julian D Richards are leading a new project to investigate life in those winter quarters, and to ...
Over the last eight years, archaeological work by the University of Aberdeen – including some intrepid excavations at Dunnicaer – has revealed major new insights into the Picts. The Picts are a ...
A Roman farmstead at Great Glen, Leicestershire, was investigated by Albion Archaeology. The reconstruction drawing by Cecily Marshall give an idea of how the site would have appeared in the mid- 3rd ...
It used to be thought that only high-class houses had survived from the Medieval period. Radiocarbon and tree-ring dating has now revealed that thousands of ordinary Medieval homes are still standing ...
The south Roman camp at Burnswark. The ancient author Josephus once observed of the Roman military that ‘their training manoeuvres are battles without bloodshed, and their battles manoeuvres with ...
In the 1970s and 1980s, investigations at Repton revealed evidence of a 9th-century Viking army camp, as well as a mass grave thought to contain their battle dead. Now new analysis and excavations ...
The man who died half a million years ago. In a gravel pit at Boxgrove, just outside Chichester, the remains of a person have been discovered, half a million years old. Only a shin bone and two teeth ...
Overlooking the A1, where it crosses the River Swale. Archaeological work during an upgrade to the road revealed a wealth of insights into Roman Yorkshire. The sites at Agricola Bridge and Brompton ...