The ‘hare mosaic’, featured as the cover of CA 29, was found in a house in Insula XII on the eastern edge of Corinium. An update on the excavations happening in Cirencester, as well as news 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Extensive geophysical investigations over the last ten years have illuminated the long-buried remains of Isurium Brigantum, once the capital of the Romanised Brigantes. Here, Rose Ferraby is carrying ...

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 ...

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 ...