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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 great Iron Age hoards discovered at Snettisham in Norfolk form the richest Iron Age treasure ever discovered in this country. The ‘Marriage Torc’ from Snettisham. The upper part of the terminal of ...

Unravelling the evolution of Europe’s largest prehistoric mound When a tunnel into Silbury Hill was opened for the first time in almost 40 years to allow emergency conservation work, a team of English ...

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 ...

As a chiropodist, I spent half a century looking at feet. During this time, I gradually came to realise that pain was more frequently caused not so much by wearing unsuitable footwear as by anomalies ...

Britain's favourite archaeology magazineIf 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 ...

Conserving Britain’s biggest Iron Age hoard This photo shows just a portion of Le Câtillon II, the largest coin hoard yet found in the British Isles, which was discovered in Jersey in 2012. As well as ...