Continuing last month’s exploration of high sites across the country, both well known and less well known, that reflect the ...

Transforming the story of two Sussex villages A recent series of excavations across Burpham and Wepham in West Sussex has ...

The fragments making up the remains of the Berlanga Cup (top pair of images) and (below) a digital reconstruction of the artefact. Recently found in Spain, it is the latest addition to the ‘Hadrian’s ...

Rescue archaeology is carried out in areas threatened by human or natural agency. We’ve collated some of the best rescue projects that have been highlighted in Current Archaeology over the past year.

Unusually for my column, I will start in this instance at the most recent mention of Roman Lincoln and then work backwards chronologically through past coverage in the magazine. CA 421 (April 2025) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Built in 1071, Oxford Castle was an imposing fortification with one of the largest mottes in the country. Largely abandoned by the late 16th century – though it was briefly refortified in the Civil ...

When a previously unknown shipwreck was discovered off the Sussex coast in 2015, it sparked a wide-ranging project to piece together the clues to its identity, as well an innovative initiative to ...

Overlooking the impressive Iron Age earthworks of Warham Camp, towards the sea. Immediately to the left of the monument runs the River Stiffkey, which was rerouted in the 18th century, destroying a ...

We know that Britain experienced tumultuous events during Hadrian’s reign. What we do not know is the order in which they played out. The answer may hold the key to understanding Britain’s premier ...