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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 ...
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 ...
A view of the East Kent Access Road excavations on the Ebbsfleet peninsula, looking south towards the English Channel with the mouth of the River Stour running into the southern side of Pegwell Bay.
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 ...
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 ...
Over a decade of research at Britain’s most important Mesolithic site has shed vivid light on life shortly after the end of the last Ice Age. With the project’s findings now published in a ...
How the Black Death prompted a building boom 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 ...
20 years is a long time in television. In the immediate aftermath of a programme’s cancellation it is traditional to attempt a post-mortem of what went wrong. But in this, as in so many other ways, ...
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 ...
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 ...