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 ...

Encountering a community from 19th-century Blackburn On 30 September 1820, the cornerstone for a new Anglican church was laid ...

Unusually for my column, I will start in this instance at the most recent mention of Roman Lincoln and then work backwards chronologically through past coverage in the magazine. CA 421 (April 2025) ...

Colchester’s first CA cover feature came in 1973, though the article within was more focused on nearby Chelmsford – Roman Caesaromagus. The high standards that Ros and Philip instilled from the outset ...

Over the course of eight decades, at least 14 separate hoards of Iron Age metalwork have been recovered from a single field at Snettisham in Norfolk. Now, following the publication of a new book ...

Tre’r Ceiri hillfort, on the Llŷn Peninsula, Gwynedd, was one of the first in Wales to be recorded by antiquaries. Noting its cluster of huts, Thomas Pennant (1726-1798) described it as ‘the most ...

The winners of the Current Archaeology Awards 2025. L-R: Derek Alexander and Dr Daniel Rhodes (Research Project of the Year), Julian Richards who presented the awards, Prof Joyce Tyldesley ...

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 ...

Twenty-five years ago, a cargo of millions of pieces of Lego was washed overboard during a storm off Land’s End. To this day, tiny pieces of plastic are still being found on Cornish beaches. Joe ...

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In AD 872-873, a Viking army spent the winter at Torksey in Lincolnshire. Their camp is now well known, but the team that discovered it have since turned their attention to what happened after the ...

The traditional story of Iona’s early medieval monastery ends in tragedy and bloodshed, with the religious community wiped out by vicious Viking raiders. Increasingly, though, the archaeological and ...