New research into a man buried at St Peter’s in Barton-upon-Humber almost 1,000 years ago has shed new light on the complexity of society in Britain during the Norman ...
Fund, which helps volunteer and community groups to date their finds, has opened applications for its 2026 funding cycle. Kimberley Teale discusses key findings from some of the projects supported by ...
A metal-detectorist has discovered a hoard of Roman bronze objects in the Chilterns, Buckinghamshire, including a rare rattle that may have been used in religious ceremonies (below centre). Adam ...
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In 1801, William Cunnington – a prolific excavator of Bronze Age barrows on Salisbury Plain – investigated a particularly impressive burial mound at Upton Lovell, about 12 miles (20km) west of ...
Entitled A Book of Sites (see ‘Further reading’ below), this new CAU volume adds to some 20 previous monographs and more than 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals reporting on large-scale fieldwork in ...
Australia’s Nullarbor Plain is the world’s largest semi-arid karst system and, as such, contains thousands of subterranean caves. Some are adorned with stalactites and stalagmites, some have cave ...
The exhibition documents every stage of women’s lives, beginning at birth. Childbirth was an important, and dangerous, part of life in the ancient world, posing considerable risk not just to the ...
It was a treacherous stretch of coast. The ancient Greek historian Xenophon, writing in the 4th century BC, describes the perils of the Black Sea shore in the region around Salmydessos, a town in ...
Almost 2,000 years ago, Viroconium Cornoviorum – known to us as Wroxeter – was the fourth-largest public city in Roman Britain, equivalent in area to Pompeii. The Shropshire site has played an ...
When William of Orange landed in Devon in 1688, he brought with him a force of some 40,000 men, carried by a huge fleet of 463 ships – three times the size of the Spanish Armada. The Dutch-born prince ...
Aakheperenra Thutmose II is not one of the better-known pharaohs, overshadowed by his father Thutmose I, his half-sister Hatshepsut, and his son Thutmose III. Aakheperkara, the first Thutmose, had ...
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