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 ...

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 ...

A Viking Great Army winter camp and beyond 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 ...

Around 11,000 years ago, the banks of Lake Flixton were part of a rapidly changing world. This was just four centuries into the Holocene, the geological warm period in which we still live today, whose ...

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 ...

A Roman assault on a hillfort in Scotland The ancient author Josephus once observed of the Roman military that ‘their training manoeuvres are battles without bloodshed, and their battles manoeuvres ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the 7th century AD, a King – it was surely no less – received a magnificent burial at Sutton Hoo, in East Anglia. A ship was hauled up from the river, a burial chamber was erected in the middle of ...