CA 181 (September 2002) and CA 184 (February 2003) reported at this time. The ship lay buried in thick estuarine mud, the starboard side having survived after becoming flattened out over the centuries ...

‘Merlin’s Grave’ and other lost stories embedded in the landscape On the banks of the Tweed in the Scottish Borders is the reputed site of Merlin’s Grave, the embedded remnant of a legend long ...

The county of Gloucestershire encompasses a wide variety of landscapes, from the mix of urban and traditional farming communities (now more often dormitory settlements) in the south, by way of the ...

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 Penrith ...

Twenty-five years ago, a cargo of millions of pieces of Lego was washed overboard during a storm off Land’s End. To this day, tiny pieces of plastic are still being found on Cornish beaches. Joe ...

Secrets of a unique Viking Age collection from south-west Scotland Buried c.AD 900, the Galloway Hoard is thought to be Scotland’s earliest-known Viking Age hoard. In the years since its discovery in ...

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 ...

A Romano-Celtic temple-mausoleum and evidence of industry at Priors Hall, Corby Overlooking the Priors Hall excavation site, where Oxford Archaeology East has revealed the remains of a Roman ...

Wood samples were taken from this 2nd century BC Gallo-Roman ship discovered in Lyon, France, near the River Saône. CREDIT: ARC-Nucléart What spurred the research was the team’s successful development ...

CA was given an exclusive preview of the wide-ranging new monograph containing the project’s full findings, which highlight how Scotch Corner is helping to transform our understanding of the Iron ...

‘The deaths from fever and contagious diseases I found to be almost exclusively confined to the worst parts of the town. An epidemic of smallpox raged at the end of the year 1831, and carried off ...

Two decades of archaeological research have shed vivid light on an Anglo-Saxon community that lived at Bamburgh 1,400 years ago, revealing a surprisingly diverse population. With the findings now ...