Overlooking 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 ...

For my third and final column on the Palaeolithic, I will clamber into some of the most famous caves in the country. Even ...

Over the last eight years, archaeological work by the University of Aberdeen – including some intrepid excavations at Dunnicaer – has revealed major new insights into the Picts. The Picts are a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most Roman towns were sited either over previous towns, or over Roman forts. London was unusual in that it appears to have been founded from scratch. And it wasn’t a quick foundation. The Roman ...

Excavation of the Pocklington chariot burial under way in February 2017. This is the first chariot burial to be found in 200 years that included the horses. The square barrow containing the burial was ...

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 ...

Diggers stand by each of the pits during the 2005 Scottish National Trust excavation, giving an idea of the scale of the monument at Warren Field. Photo: Murray Archaeological Services Ltd ‘I’ll need ...

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 ...

Salisbury Plain is renowned for its spectacular Neolithic monuments, but decades of research have found few traces of earlier activity in the Stonehenge landscape. Now the discovery of the plain’s ...