Overlooking the 2024 excavation within the paddock at Wroxeter Farm. The upstanding remains of the Roman city, including the public baths, can be seen on the opposite side of the road, while the ...

Current Archaeology’s first formal visit to Tintagel was in 1998, covering the story of the site and the theories about what it could have been used for. Radford believed the site to be a monastery, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 more than 69,000 Celtic coins, the corroded ...

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 ...

Over the last eight years, archaeological work by the University of Aberdeen – including some intrepid excavations at Dunnicaer – has revealed major new insights into the Picts. The Picts are a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Overlooking the A1, where it crosses the River Swale. Archaeological work during an upgrade to the road revealed a wealth of insights into Roman Yorkshire. The sites at Agricola Bridge and Brompton ...