New insights from one of Britannia’s largest urban centres The first research excavation to take place at Wroxeter in more ...

This month’s column comprises the latest in visited Chester and Colchester, and next up is Cirencester (Corinium). While not ...

If you are interested in Roman mosaics, then this issue of CA will be something of a treat for you! Three of this month’s ...

Britain's favourite archaeology magazineIf you are interested in Roman mosaics, then this issue of CA will be something of a treat for you! Three of this month’s articles touch on different aspects of ...

Most Roman towns were sited either over previous towns, or over Roman forts. London was unusual in that it appears to have been founded from scratch. And it wasn’t a quick foundation. The Roman ...

The Snettisham treasure was first discovered in 1948. The field was being ploughed deeper than usual, and in the course of ploughing the ploughman discovered an interesting lump of metal. He took it ...

What can we learn from going back to a site that was first excavated by Grahame Clark in 1949-51, and that has since become the type site for the early Mesolithic? The answer is a new understanding ...

HERE BE DRAGONS: THE LEGO THAT GOT LOST Tracey’s book is one that I would recommend everyone should read. As I commented in my review, this is a story of citizen-science of the best type, well written ...

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 ...

Conserving Britain’s biggest Iron Age hoard 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 ...

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 ...