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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 ...
If you are interested in Roman mosaics, then this issue of CA will be something of a treat for you! Three of this month’s ...
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 ...
Illuminating Iron Age hillforts in Wales In CA 388 we asked, ‘what are hillforts for?’, and Toby Driver’s new book Hillforts of Iron Age Wales has some suggestions. Based on his many years spent ...
HERE BE DRAGONS: THE LEGO THAT GOT LOST Tracey’s book is one that I would recommend everyone should read. As I commented in my review, this is a story of citizen-science of the best type, well written ...
The Viking-induced downfall of Iona is what we call a ‘zombie narrative’, the kind of revenant story that continues to rise from the dead every time it is laid to rest. Not only does it refuse to die, ...
Secrets of a unique Viking Age collection from south-west Scotland Buried c.AD 900, the Galloway Hoard is thought to be Scotland’s earliest-known Viking Age hoard. In the years since its discovery in ...
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 ...
Bede uses the term Angli in two senses: of ‘Angles’, but also for ‘the English’ as a whole. The context is usually unambiguous. When quoting Old English place-names, Bede consistently identifies them ...
The small portion of the hoard recovered so far includes three gold ornaments, a silver ingot, and 30 silver coins – but photos recovered by police during their investigations suggest that, when ...
Almost a decade of excavations in the sand dunes below Bamburgh Castle revealed dozens of Anglo-Saxon burials, whose occupants are now documented in an innovative ‘digital ossuary’. This man was ...