Roman Chester – Deva Victrix – is one of the unquestioned ‘great sites’ of Roman Britain. This was a major military centre from its late 1st-century AD origins through to its abandonment in the late ...

Two decades of excavations in East Sussex farmland have uncovered the remains of an unusual enclosed settlement linking the Roman road network with the River Ouse. Rob Wallace and David Millum explain ...

In 1978, Current Archaeology arrived on the scene of works begun six years prior by Manchester University, which surveyed Offa’s Dyke and neighbouring Wat’s Dyke. My column this month is on one of the ...

My ‘great site’ this month is one close to many people’s hearts. When I think of the locations that embody the best of Current Archaeology as a magazine and British archaeology as a community, I ...

After more than 50 columns exploring the archaeology of the British Isles through a geographic lens, I begin here a new thematic focus: that of ‘great’ sites visited by Current Archaeology down the ...

‘A truly stupendous achievement of synthesis and evaluation… drawing on a lifetime of teaching and researching early medieval archaeology.’ ...

The first issue of Current Archaeology was published in 1967, a time when archaeology was just still in its early days of professionalisation. To help mark the milestone of Current Archaeology 400, ...

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 ...

When shown under ultraviolet radiation, the clavi glowed a pinkish-orange. CREDIT: Gates et al., International Journal of Ceramic Engineering and Science Between 30 BC and the 3rd century AD, during ...

Overlooking the Priors Hall excavation site, where Oxford Archaeology East has revealed the remains of a Roman temple-mausoleum that was subsequently repurposed as a major tile- and brick-making ...

Excavations at a new development called Bath Quays have uncovered traces of what was one of Bath’s poorest districts in the 18th to 20th centuries. Here, the remains of the Milk Street Baths and ...

Analysis of a medieval mass grave excavated at Thornton Abbey, northern Lincolnshire, has confirmed that the people within it probably died during the Black Death in the 14th century – a discovery of ...