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 ...

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 ...

CA 60 (February 1978) saw the first formal visit to Offa’s Dyke, reporting on work begun in 1972 by a team from Manchester University who, given the paucity of information available about it at the ...

Ken Hill, near the village of Snettisham in north west Norfolk, is a special place. This promontory overlooking the Wash is a conspicuous feature in an otherwise flat and marshy coastal landscape, ...

‘Merlin’s Grave’ and other lost stories embedded in the landscape On the banks of the Tweed in the Scottish Borders is the reputed site of Merlin’s Grave, the embedded remnant of a legend long ...

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 ...

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 ...

Between 30 BC and the 3rd century AD, during which period Egypt was a province of the Roman Empire, a practice developed of attaching a portrait of a mummified individual to their mummy wrappings.

FROM TOMB TO TILERY At some point in the later 3rd to early 4th century, the Priors Hall landscape underwent a dramatic evolution from a bucolic villa estate into a hub of industrious activity, ...

Wood samples were taken from this 2nd century BC Gallo-Roman ship discovered in Lyon, France, near the River Saône. CREDIT: ARC-Nucléart Wood can be a difficult, and costly, archaeological material to ...