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 ...

When we last reported from Arthur’s Stone in 2023 (CA 404), it was thought of as an isolated Neolithic monumental site overlooking the Golden Valley in Herefordshire. Now, the ...

Restoration work at the Priory House in Dunstable – a Grade II-listed building that was originally part of the grounds of Dunstable Priory, founded by Henry I in 1132 ...

The sheep-pox virus (SPPV; Capripoxvirus sheeppox) is in the same family as the variola virus, which causes smallpox in humans. It is a highly contagious disease among sheep, causing ...

Community-created field systems in Colombia? In the wetlands of La Mojana in northern Colombia is a vast (more than 500,000ha or 1,900 square miles) field system of canals and ...

A new museum, Trent Park House of Secrets, opened in north London this summer. The former stately home in Enfield witnessed some of the most important events of the ...

This slim volume is the latest addition to the ‘50 Finds’ series produced by the Portable Antiquities Scheme in England and Wales (PAS). While most finds recorded by PAS are metal artefacts recovered ...

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 ...

During the British Bronze Age, we can see a notable diversification of tool forms in the archaeological record, possibly reflecting an increase in craft specialisation by the Late Bronze Age (1300-800 ...

What did rocks ever do for the Romans and their northern frontier? The short answer is: pretty much everything. As a geologist, I admit I’m biased, but judge me when you have finished reading. My ...