In last month’s column, I explored Palaeolithic important prehistoric sites not just in Britain but in the whole of western ...

This month’s articles are bookended by unusual artefacts with intriguing tales to tell. The first is an elaborate pendant ...

CA 201 covered the discovery of a handaxe in Happisburgh, found by a man walking his dog along the beach in 2000. The artefact was subsequently dated to c.700,000 years ago, pushing back the date of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Beads, curios, and heirloom objects that had been arranged on a silver brooch-hoop inside a lidded vessel; just some of the eclectic contents of the Viking Age Galloway Hoard. CREDIT: National Museums ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Did ‘the Anglo-Saxon migrations’ take place, and were Romano-British leaders replaced by those of Germanic descent? Susan Oosthuizen’s new book, The Emergence of the English, is a call to rethink our ...