The nominees of the 17th annual Current Archaeology Awards are below, and voting is now open. The awards celebrate the projects and publications that made the pages of the magazine over the past 12 months, and the people judged to have made outstanding contributions to archaeology. These awards are ...

Current Archaeology Awards. The annual Current Archaeology Awards celebrate the projects and publications that made the pages of the magazine over the past 12 months, and the people judged to have made outstanding contributions to archaeology.. These awards are voted for entirely by the public – there are no panels of judges – so we encourage you to get involved and choose the projects ...

Britain's favourite archaeology magazine. This month’s articles follow two main themes, highlighting the latest insights from the worlds of historic architecture and archaeological science.

Jun 6, 2019 · Despite extensive archaeological evidence for the Great Army’s presence in Repton, though, questions remained over this interpretation. A set of radiocarbon dates obtained from the charnel was particularly problematic – while some of the bones did fit a 9th-century date, others dated to as early as the 7th and 8th centuries, …

A new exhibition running at the British Museum explores the vast network of cultural and commercial connections that spanned Europe, Africa, and…

Jan 3, 2025 · 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 describing the excavation, conservation, and scientific investigation of these spectacular finds, Jody Joy and Julia Farley describe how they came to be discovered, and reveal some of the secrets that ...

Jan 3, 2019 · When archaeologists from MAP Archaeological Practice discovered a remarkable Iron Age chariot burial during the final stages of an excavation at Pocklington, East Yorkshire, in 2017, along with an impressive 164 burials and 74 square burials, they did not realise that more amazing discoveries were to come. At the end of last year, though, another seven-month excavation on the site ...

A large Anglo-Saxon cemetery has recently been discovered at Overstone in Northamptonshire. With 154 interments, it is the largest burial ground from…

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May 1, 2013 · How the Black Death prompted a building boom It used to be thought that only high-class houses had survived from the Medieval period. Radiocarbon and tree-ring dating has now revealed that thousands of ordinary Medieval homes are still standing in the English Midlands, many incorporated into des res village houses. Chris Catling reports on how some peasants lived very well in the Middle Ages ...