Our cover feature takes us 16 years back in time to revisit a justly famous Essex excavation. Found in 2003, the burial… ...

In a gravel pit at Boxgrove, just outside Chichester, the remains of a man have been discovered, half a million years old.… ...

In AD699 St Guthluc established a hermitage on what was then a deserted fenland island at Crowland, Lincolnshire. After Guthlac’s death the… ...

This month’s cover story takes us to Drumelzier in the Scottish Borders, and more specifically to a site with a wonderfully ...

On the banks of the Tweed in the Scottish Borders is the reputed site of Merlin’s Grave, the embedded remnant of a legend long associated with the nearby village of Drumelzier. Dr Ronan Toolis ...

Since CA 360 (March 2020) I have criss-crossed the United Kingdom, examining its history through the eyes of Current Archaeology. I have now visited every county in every country, but I have just a ...

This month marks 40 years since Wessex Archaeology was founded. Milestone birthdays are often a time of reflection as well as celebration,… ...

In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Reformation and the Civil War reduced a great many of Britain’s abbeys and castles to… ...

A large carved stone that was probably launched from a medieval catapult or trebuchet has been excavated at Edinburgh’s Grassmarket. Similar in… ...

With over two dozen lecturers, technicians, administrators and researchers, a large undergraduate contingent and a substantial population of Masters and Doctoral students,… ...