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• Excavating the CA Archive – Palaeolithic Caves

  04-12-2025 23:23 via archaeology.co.uk
  or my third and final column on the of the most famous caves in the country. Even better – as I will outline at the end of this selection – the majority are open to the public, offering unparalleled opportunities to visit these stunning prehistoric sites.KENTS CAVERN, DEVONCA 262 explores the long history of settlement by both Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in Kents Cavern.The first sustained mention of the Palaeolithic in the pages of Current Archaeology comes in issue 65 (February 1
  
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• Rendlesham rediscovered

  04-12-2025 22:40 via archaeology.co.uk
  Exploring landscapes of power in early medieval East AngliaOverlooking the excavation of Rendlesham’s early medieval royal residence in 2022; the foundations of the timber great hall can be seen in Trench 14. IMAGE: Jim Pullen © Suffolk County CouncilOver the last two decades, evidence of a high-status early medieval settlement has been emerging just four miles from Sutton Hoo. What can Rendlesham tell us about the evolution and exercise of royal power in early medieval England? Carly
  
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• Current Archaeology 430 – ON SALE NOW

  04-12-2025 09:00 via archaeology.co.uk
  The turning of the year is always a point to pause and reflect. For me, this issue marks a mindful milestone, as it is my 100th since I became Editor. But there is also much to reflect on in the ever-evolving world of archaeology. CA 430 showcases the diversity of disciplines that make up our field, combining a report on a major excavation, thought-provoking scientific and ethical insights, a historic building with an intriguing story to tell, and opportunities to take part in underwater invest
  
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• Rescue Project of the Year 2026 – Nominees

  02-12-2025 19:49 via archaeology.co.uk
  Rescue archaeology is carried out in areas threatened by human or natural agency. We’ve collated some of the best rescue projects that have been highlighted in Current Archaeology over the past year. Below are the nominees for Rescue Project of the Year.Voting is now open, and all the winners of the Current Archaeology Awards will be announced on 28 February 2026 as part of Current Archaeology Live! 2026. Click here to find out more about the event.Under the i
  
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• Research Project of the Year 2026 – Nominees

  02-12-2025 18:57 via archaeology.co.uk
  This has been another exceptional year for archaeological research. The following are some of the most exciting projects to have featured in CA over the last 12 months – the nominees for Research Project of the Year.Voting is now open, and all the winners of the Current Archaeology Awards will be announced on 28 February 2026 as part of Current Archaeology Live! 2026. Click here to find out more about the event.
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• Book of the Year 2026 – Nominees

  02-12-2025 16:27 via archaeology.co.uk
  Below are some of the publications we feel most deserve to be recognised for their contribution to the field – the nominees for the Book of the Year award.Voting is now open, and all the winners of the Current Archaeology Awards will be announced on 28 February 2026 as part of Current Archaeology Live! 2026. Click here to find out more about the event.Click here for links to all the other categories.Sponsor of Book of the Year 2026
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• Archaeologist of the Year 2026 – Nominees

  02-12-2025 15:14 via archaeology.co.uk
  Below are the three individuals nominated for 2026’s ‘Archaeologist of the Year’, whose achievements reflect the diverse work taking place within our field.Voting is now open, and all the winners of the Current Archaeology Awards will be announced on 28th February 2026 as part of Current Archaeology Live! 2026. Click here to find out more about the event.Find out more about the awards here.
  Sponsor of Archaeologist of the Year 2026Dr Jane Kershaw
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• Shells found in Spain could be among oldest known musical instruments

  02-12-2025 06:00
  Conch-shell trumpets discovered in Neolithic settlements and mines in Catalonia make tone similar to french horn, says lead researcherAs a child, Miquel López García was fascinated by the conch shell, kept in the bathroom, that his father’s family in the southern Spanish region of Almería had blown to warn their fellow villagers of rising rivers and approaching flood waters.The hours he spent getting that “characteristically potent sound out of it” paid off
  
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• Archaeologists say they have proof humans carved huge pits near Stonehenge

  27-11-2025 15:02
  Research team uses range of novel methods and equipment to analyse ‘extraordinary’ Durrington pit circleThe presence of an extraordinary circle of yawning pits created by Neolithic people near Stonehenge has been proved thanks to a novel combination of scientific techniques, a team of archaeologists is claiming.The architects of Stonehenge may have had the heavens in mind when they built the great stone monument in Wiltshire, but the team believes the makers of the Durrington pit cir
  
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• DNA reveals stone age teenager as chewer of 10,500-year-old ‘gum’

  23-11-2025 21:26
  The prehistoric birch tar found in Estonia contained traces of saliva that were analysed by genetics expertsA piece of stone age “gum” chewed by a teenage girl 10,500 years ago has been discovered by archaeologists in Estonia.The Institute of History and Archaeology at the University of Tartu discovered the prehistoric birch tar had impressions of teeth marks and traces of saliva. Continue reading...
  
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• Rosemary Church obituary

  23-11-2025 18:33
  My mother, Rosemary Church, who has died aged 86, was a primary school teacher and a local historian whose work focused on Faringdon in Oxfordshire, the town where she lived for much of her life.In 1978 she founded the Faringdon and District Archaeological and Historical Society, whose members catalogued gravestones in churches, transcribed documents of local interest, collected photographs from a bygone age, put on exhibitions and talks, and set up a history resource centre for use by the commu
  
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• Rare bronze and iron age log boats reveal details of Cambridgeshire prehistory

  14-11-2025 01:01
  Well-preserved oak and maple boats used for transport and fishing to be displayed in PeterboroughAfter lying undisturbed in mud for more than 3,000 years, three rare bronze and iron age log boats have emerged to offer fresh insights into prehistoric life.The boats were among nine discovered in a Cambridgeshire quarry 13 years ago – the largest group of prehistoric boats found in the same UK site. Most were well preserved, with one still able to float despite its long incarceration. Continu
  
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• Excavating the CA Archive – Palaeolithic Kent and Sussex

  06-11-2025 18:10 via archaeology.co.uk
  In last month’s column, I explored Palaeolithic important prehistoric sites not just in Britain but in the whole of western Europe. Here I will follow up on that review by moving south into Kent and Sussex. A series of discoveries made in these counties has further enriched our knowledge of the deep past of what were to become the British Isles, and played a crucial part in the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain (AHOB) project of 2001-2011, which transformed our understanding of this peri
  
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• Current Archaeology 429 – ON SALE NOW

  06-11-2025 17:28 via archaeology.co.uk
  This month’s articles are bookended by unusual artefacts with intriguing tales to tell. The first is an elaborate pendant bearing emblems associated with Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon. Analysis of its imagery has revealed a much wider story than was previously imagined, illuminating not only a royal marriage and the world of the Tudor court, but political ambitions and hopes for a lasting peace in 16th-century Europe. The other is a mysterious Roman dodecahedron. Theories abound for h
  
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• Current Archaeology 429

  06-11-2025 17:28 via archaeology.co.uk
  This month’s articles are bookended by unusual artefacts with intriguing tales to tell. The first is an elaborate pendant bearing emblems associated with Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon. Analysis of its imagery has revealed a much wider story than was previously imagined, illuminating not only a royal marriage and the world of the Tudor court, but political ambitions and hopes for a lasting peace in 16th-century Europe. The other is a mysterious Roman dodecahedron. Theories abound for
  
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• A multi-sided story

  06-11-2025 09:00 via archaeology.co.uk
  Examining the Norton Disney dodecahedron in its wider contextThe Norton Disney dodecahedron. IMAGE: University of Nottingham Museum/Alan Fletcher
  Around 130 dodecahedra have been found across the northern Roman Empire, but the purpose of these ornate objects is unknown, and few have been recovered from datable contexts in modern excavations. An important exception forms the focus of an exhibition exploring the archaeology of Potter Hill, Lincolnshire. Carly Hilts visited the displays and spoke t
  
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• Archaeologists discover how oldest American civilisation survived a climate catastrophe

  05-11-2025 14:50
  Experts find artefacts left behind in Caral showing how population survived drought without resorting to violenceArchaeologists in Peru have found new evidence showing how the oldest known civilization in the Americas adapted and survived a climate catastrophe without resorting to violence.A team led by the renowned Peruvian archaeologist Ruth Shady, 78, concluded that about 4,200 years ago, severe drought forced the population to leave the ancient city of Caral, and resettle nearby. Continue re
  
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• Bigger on the inside

  29-10-2025 20:02 via tenthmedieval.wordpress.com
  The very helpful discussion on blog alternatives a few posts back, still bubbling on, seems for now to be pointing to trying to regrow an audience here. I think that means I need to start posting more than once every few months, don’t you? And things are sufficiently exciting just now that I am starting to stub bloig posts again, for the first time in ages. But I have left it late for today, so let me just bounce some medievalist photography off you once again, if I may?This is the view yo
  
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• The big ‘what’s going on’

  21-10-2025 21:39 via tenthmedieval.wordpress.com
  The time has come (the blogger said) to talk of big things. I have flown flags enough, over the last few posts, sporadic as they have been, to give the impression that change was afoot in my life as well as maybe in the blog, and so here at last is the announcement. These are the headlines.
  For reasons which the blog more or less makes clear, if you read back over the doldrums, hiatuses, shortage of news and posts about industrial action, despite having had a secure academic appointment in a top
  
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• ‘It would be wonderful’: the team hoping to unearth ‘Cornwall’s Stonehenge’

  12-10-2025 14:00
  Experts and volunteers working at Castilly Henge have been trying determine if it is the county’s lost great stone circleIt was a grey Cornish autumn day, but Henry Stevens’s tough shift digging in a field next to the A30 was about to get very exciting.Her eye was caught by something glinting in the soil and she picked up a flake of flint that had lain for thousands of years within what might just turn out to be a Cornish version of Stonehenge. Continue reading...
  
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• Why it’s worth taking a wider look at biarchal cultures | Letters

  10-10-2025 18:23
  In places such as Canada, the US, parts of Africa, southern India and Polynesia, biarchal traditions are almost within living memory, says Simon DawsonLaura Spinney offers a compelling glimpse into the possibility that gender-egalitarian societies once flourished in the past – cultures where women held substantial autonomy and influence (The big idea: Was prehistory a feminist paradise?, 5 October). However, her article remains constrained by a predominantly Eurocentric lens.Most of Spinne
  
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• Excavating the CA Archive – Palaeolithic Norfolk and Suffolk

  07-10-2025 19:14 via archaeology.co.uk
  In the previous few columns I have explored some of the great towns of Roman Britain – so, as a change of pace, here I will begin a new mini-series on the country’s great prehistoric sites. I will commence this month with a series of locations in Norfolk and Suffolk where there is evidence for Palaeolithic activity, some dating back to the Lower Palaeolithic (c.3.3 million-300,000 years ago), others spanning the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic (c.300,000-50,000 and c.50,000-12,000 year
  
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• A battlefield hit by HS2 – and planning rules | Letter

  07-10-2025 18:41
  Permitted development regulations allowed the contractor to strip topsoil and damage potential archaeology, writes Simon MarshIt isn’t just the countryside and its residents that are suffering due to HS2 (‘It’s been beyond difficult’: earthworks of HS2 take toll on Chilterns residents, 2 October). The high-speed rail contractor has recently done considerable damage to potential archaeology on the nationally important registered battlefield at Edgcote, a Wars of the Roses
  
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• The people of St Peter’s

  07-10-2025 17:30 via archaeology.co.uk
  Encountering a community from 19th-century BlackburnHeadland Archaeology’s excavation of the remains of St Peter’s, Blackburn, and its burial ground revealed a wealth of information about people buried there in the 19th century. IMAGE: Headland Archaeology
  On 30 September 1820, the cornerstone for a new Anglican church was laid in Blackburn town centre. Consecrated the following year, St Peter’s had been built to help accommodate the Lancashire town’s rapidly growing popu
  
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• New Orleans couple discovers ancient Roman grave marker in their yard

  07-10-2025 11:00
  Discovery of 1,900-year-old headstone dedicated to Roman sailor sets off effort to repatriate item to ItalyA New Orleans couple clearing away undergrowth in their home’s yard unearthed a grave marker, setting off a quest for answers about how the roughly 1,900-year-old relic ended up there – and an effort to repatriate it to Italy.The remarkable discovery was the work of Tulane University anthropologist Daniella Santoro and her husband, Aaron Lorenz, according to a report published o
  
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• Current Archaeology 428 – ON SALE NOW

  06-10-2025 16:04 via archaeology.co.uk
  You might notice that our first three features all begin with a photograph of a burial. Spanning c.3,000 years and hundreds of miles, together they highlight the diverse ways in which past populations have interacted with the dead, and what these practices can tell us about the living.This month’s cover feature takes us to Blackburn in Lancashire, where one of the largest cemetery excavations of its kind outside London has recovered the remains of almost 2,000 men, women, and children who
  
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• Current Archaeology 428

  06-10-2025 16:04 via archaeology.co.uk
  You might notice that our first three features all begin with a photograph of a burial. Spanning c.3,000 years and hundreds of miles, together they highlight the diverse ways in which past populations have interacted with the dead, and what these practices can tell us about the living.This month’s cover feature takes us to Blackburn in Lancashire, where one of the largest cemetery excavations of its kind outside London has recovered the remains of almost 2,000 men, women, and children who
  
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• Was prehistory a feminist paradise?

  05-10-2025 13:00
  Visions of matriarchal utopia may be wishful thinking, but there’s growing evidence of women wielding powerThere is a stubborn and widely held idea that in some earlier phase of our species’ existence, women had equal status to men, or even ruled, and societies were happier and more peaceful for it. Then along came the patriarchy, and much bloodshed and oppression later, here we all are.This notion of matriarchy and patriarchy as polar opposites – with a switch having been thro
  
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• Country diary: Just how low can a stone circle go? | Sara Hudston

  02-10-2025 06:30
  Withypool, Somerset: This is a landscape where things can lie hidden – not least a bronze-age structure that is more trip hazard than landmarkSeen from the barrow at the top of Withypool Hill, the common stretches away south like a lion’s back, tawny grass glinting as the land dips and then rises to the open skyline. Apart from a bridle path worn through like a rubbed seam, and a distant, narrow thread of road, the ground appears empty. But it’s not – we’r
  
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• ‘It’s incredibly exciting’: ancient canoe unearthed after Hurricane Ian stormed through Florida

  28-09-2025 13:00
  The latest find is likely from the 16th century and could have originated as far away as the CaribbeanFlorida already claims to be the world capital of golf, shark bites and lightning strikes. Now a remarkable discovery following a devastating hurricane has enhanced its position as a global leader in another distinctive field: ancient canoes – some even prehistoric.State archeologists have just completed a painstaking preservation of an ancient wooden canoe discovered by a resident of Fort
  
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• New research may rewrite origins of the Book of Kells, says academic

  26-09-2025 07:00
  Exclusive: Author challenges assumption monks on Iona created manuscript, instead positing its origins are PictishThe Book of Kells was likely to have been created 1,200 years ago in Pictish eastern Scotland, rather than on the island of Iona, according to research that challenges long-held assumptions about one of the world’s most famous medieval manuscripts.The Book of Kells is an intricate, illuminated account of the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John that was long thought to
  
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• ‘Tunnel vision’: how Israel is using archaeology to win US support for goals

  25-09-2025 06:00
  Scientists say Netanyahu government and its US backers are trying to construct a history shorn of all complexityWhen the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, visited Jerusalem this month, the itinerary his Israeli hosts laid on involved more archaeology than anything else. On his first day, Benjamin Netanyahu took Rubio underground to excavations near the Western Wall. On the second day, Israel’s prime minister gave his American visitor the honour of inaugurating a tunnel burrowed under a P
  
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• Name in Print XXXII: priests around Manresa

  18-09-2025 15:39 via tenthmedieval.wordpress.com
  Following up unusually fast with another new post, here’s a piece of news with which I am, at least, not as late as with most of my blogging, which is that despite everything going on in the past few years I have actually managed to publish something for the first time in a year or two. I would usually at this point include a picture, but foolishly I packed the volume for shipping without thinking of that—and yes, that does imply more news, it will follow—and so you will have t
  
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• Rocks on train tracks strand 900 Machu Picchu tourists amid protest

  17-09-2025 03:31
  About 1,400 visitors were evacuated but hundreds were left stuck because of action linked to bus contract dispute, say Peru authoritiesAt least 900 tourists were stranded near the ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu on Tuesday, Peru’s tourism minister said, after a passenger train service was suspended due to a protest.PeruRail said service was suspended on Monday because the route in Peru’s mountainous Cusco region had been blocked by “rocks of various sizes” as residen
  
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• Monty Python’s Flying Research Reading

  15-09-2025 14:54 via tenthmedieval.wordpress.com
  Goodness knows there has been a lot to do lately, and I will explain some of it in a couple of posts—one of the things I have been doing is making more opportunities to write, which will shortly begin to arrive, I hope and trust—but a few weeks ago, before the maelstrom truly swallowed me, I found myself wandering back here and looking at my stubbed draft posts. I tell you, I don’t remember what all of them are about, or even what I was thinking, but this old one still has legs
  
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• Archaeologists scramble to evacuate Gaza artefacts threatened by Israeli strike

  11-09-2025 22:17
  Officials hurriedly remove nearly three decades of finds in ‘high-risk operation’An official in charge of nearly three decades of archaeological finds in Gaza has described how the artefacts were hurriedly evacuated from a Gaza City building threatened by an Israeli strike.“This was a high-risk operation, carried out in an extremely dangerous context for everyone involved – a real last-minute rescue,” said Olivier Poquillon, director of the French Biblical and Archa
  
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• People gathered for great meat feasts at end of British bronze age, study shows

  10-09-2025 06:00
  Evidence of millions of animal bones at sites in West Country and Surrey points to ‘age of feasting’These days, revellers converge on the West Country from all parts of the UK and beyond to take part in the wonderful craziness of the Glastonbury festival.It turns out that at the end of the bronze age – also a time of climatic and economic crisis – the same sort of impulse gripped people. Continue reading...
  
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• Excavating the CA Archive – Roman St Albans

  04-09-2025 17:11 via archaeology.co.uk
  To conclude my mini-series on the towns of Roman. famous Romano-British city of all: Verulamium, modern-day St Albans. With much of the city surviving, unexcavated, beneath modern-day park- and farmland, and upstanding elements visible alongside the award-winning museum that was founded by Tessa Verney Wheeler and Mortimer Wheeler in the 1930s (see CA 211 and 216, September 2007 and March 2008, for more on their work at the site, and p.42 of this issue for more on Tessa), there is much to see th
  
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• Current Archaeology 427

  04-09-2025 12:53 via archaeology.co.uk
  This month’s cover feature showcases a colourful discovery from Roman London: vibrant fragments from one of the largest collections of painted wall plaster of this period ever found in the capital. Once part of fashionable frescos, thousands of pieces of plaster had been dumped in a pit associated with the demolition of a high-status building that stood in Southwark almost 2,000 years ago. Now, work is ongoing to piece this ancient jigsaw puzzle back together, revealing fascinating insight
  
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• If Walls Could Talk

  04-09-2025 12:33 via archaeology.co.uk
  Reconstructing Roman London’s fashionable frescos
  Han Li, MOLA’s Senior Building Material Specialist, works to reconstruct some of the
  thousands of fragments of Roman frescos that have been recovered
  from the site of The Liberty in Southwark. IMAGE: © MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)
  Recent excavations in Southwark have uncovered one of the largest collections of painted Roman wall plaster ever found in London. Carly Hilts spoke to Han Li about ongoing efforts to piece this 2
  
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• Forget Tomb Raider and Uncharted, there’s a new generation of games about archaeology – sort of

  03-09-2025 16:00
  In this week’s newsletter: an archaeologist and gamer on why we love to walk around finding objects in-game and in real lifeThe game I’m most looking forward to right now is Big Walk, the latest title from House House, creators of the brilliant Untitled Goose Game. A cooperative multiplayer adventure where players are let loose to explore an open world, I’m interested to see what emergent gameplay comes out of it. Could Big Walk allow for a kind of community archaeology with fr
  
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• Archaeologists in Peru discover 3D mural that could date back 4,000 years

  02-09-2025 12:30
  The unprecedented find has shifted archaeological understanding about the first civilisations in the AmericasArchaeologists in Peru have discovered a multicoloured three-dimensional wall that could date back 4,000 years, in an unprecedented find that has shifted archaeological understanding about the first civilisations in the Americas.The centrepiece of the three-by-six metre wall carving is a stylistic depiction of a large bird of prey with outstretched wings, its head adorned with three-dimen
  
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• Excavating the CA Archive – Roman Lincoln

  21-08-2025 04:27 via archaeology.co.uk
  As part of my ongoing mini-series on the towns of Roman Britain, I will focus in this column on Roman Lincoln (Lindum), which was founded as a legionary fortress during the reign of Nero (AD 54-68), and subsequently developed into a colonia (a settlement for retired soldiers) after AD 86 during the reign of Domitian (AD 81-96). As CA 421 comments: ‘For those of us who know the city today, it is hard to imagine a time when Lincoln was not thought of as an outstanding destination for heritag
  
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• A game of tombs?

  21-08-2025 03:59 via archaeology.co.uk
  Rethinking what the dead can tell us about Neolithic society in IrelandOverlooking Newgrange, one of Ireland’s most famous Neolithic passage tombs. What has recent research revealed about the individuals who were laid to rest in such impressive monuments? IMAGE: Ken Williams
  Who was buried in the passage tombs of Neolithic Ireland? For centuries, many thought that these monuments were the final resting places of a ruling elite, and in 2020 this seemed to be confirmed by ancient DNA analysi
  
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• Current Archaeology 426

  08-08-2025 22:30 via archaeology.co.uk
  This month’s cover features an image of Newgrange, one of Ireland’s most famous Neolithic passage tombs. Recent analysis has shed intriguing light on the people who were buried within these grand monuments – and on the structure of the societies that they belonged to.Questions of identity also lie at the heart of our next article, which examines recent research into the impact of Viking attacks and Scandinavian settlement across the north of England.From raiding to trading, we
  
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• Revealing Roman Wroxeter

  03-07-2025 10:00 via archaeology.co.uk
  New insights from one of Britannia’s largest urban centresOverlooking the 2024 excavation within the paddock at Wroxeter Farm. The upstanding remains of the Roman city, including the public baths, can be seen on the opposite side of the road, while the Wrekin – a hill that was once a stronghold of the local Cornovii people – can be seen in the far distance. PHOTO: Paul Belford © Heritage Innovation
  The first research excavation to take place at Wroxeter in more than 30 yea
  
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• Excavating the CA Archive – Roman Cirencester

  03-07-2025 10:00 via archaeology.co.uk
  This month’s column comprises the latest in visited Chester and Colchester, and next up is Cirencester (Corinium). While not the most famous Romano-British town, it has fared well in the annals of Current Archaeology, first appearing in CA 29 (November 1971) and recurring regularly since then, including in multiple cover stories – most recently, CA 397 (April 2023).UNDERSTANDING THE CITYThe ‘hare mosaic’, featured as the cover of CA 29, was found in a house in Insula XII
  
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• Current Archaeology 425 – ON SALE NOW

  03-07-2025 10:00 via archaeology.co.uk
  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 articles touch on different aspects of these fabulous floors, beginning with our cover feature, which highlights the latest discoveries from Wroxeter, once one of the largest urban centres in Britain. There, the first research excavations to take place on the site in over 30 years have uncovered illuminating new insights into the Roman settlement’s city centre &nd
  
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• Current Archaeology 425

  03-07-2025 10:00 via archaeology.co.uk
  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 articles touch on different aspects of these fabulous floors, beginning with our cover feature, which highlights the latest discoveries from Wroxeter, once one of the largest urban centres in Britain. There, the first research excavations to take place on the site in over 30 years have uncovered illuminating new insights into the Roman settlement’s city centre &nd
  
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• Fields and farmsteads: Organising the early Roman frontier region in South Yorkshire

  05-06-2025 10:00 via archaeology.co.uk
  Excavations at Holme Hall Quarry, between Doncaster and Rotherham, have revealed how the landscape was transformed into extensive, carefully planned field systems and farmsteads during the early Roman period. Was this development the work of local Iron Age communities, or a land grab by an occupying army? Francis M Morris, who has recently completed post-excavation analysis and publication through Archaeological Research Services Ltd, explains more.Overlooking the excavation of the horseshoe-sha
  
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