Friday, 10 February 2012

Time Team: Mary-Ann Ochota quits Channel 4 archaeological show

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Time Team has been thrown into disarray after Mary-Ann Ochota became the second presenter to leave the Channel 4 archaeological progra...
Thursday, 9 February 2012

Reply to my complaint to Channel 4 concerning Time Team Changes

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As expected, a wishy-washy response - but the more people who write in, the better! "Dear Mr Beard, Thank you for contacting Chann...
Wednesday, 8 February 2012

Mick Aston quits Time Team after producers hire former model co-presenter

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Mick Aston, the archeologist, has quit Time Team after producers hired a former model as the programme’s co-presenter.  The 65-year-...
Monday, 30 January 2012

Find Roman history and Anglo Saxon remains under your feet

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BUDDING archaeologists need to pick up a trowel and get digging in their back gardens. A new project, funded by a £40,800 grant from...
Friday, 27 January 2012

Archaeology Courses at the Oxford Experience 2012

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The Oxford Experience Summer School 1 July to 11 August 2012 The 2012 Oxford Experience Programme is now online. The Oxford Exp...
Thursday, 26 January 2012

Mass grave belonged to Viking mercenaries

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The burial site, containing the bodies of 54 young men, was unearthed at Ridgeway Hill near Weymouth in 2009 ahead of the construction ...

The Viking death squads who got a taste of their own medicine: Mass grave shows how the Anglo-Saxons hit back at invaders

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A mass grave found in Dorset contains the bodies of an elite ‘hit squad’ of invading Viking warriors, experts claim.  All decapitated an...

Viking mass grave linked to elite killers of the medieval world

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A crew of Viking mercenaries – some of the fiercest and most feared killers in the medieval world – could be the occupants of a mysterious...

Skeletons found in Dorset mass grave 'were mercenaries'

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A mass grave in Dorset containing 54 decapitated skeletons was a burial ground for violent Viking mercenaries, according to a Cambridge ...
Wednesday, 25 January 2012

Outreach and widening participation

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Applications are now open for our annual Sutton Trust Summer School in Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, which will take place on 13th-17th...
Monday, 16 January 2012

Symposium in memory of Dr David Hill

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‘Towns, Topography, Tapestry’ a symposium in memory of Dr David Hill. 7-8 June 2012 John Rylands Library Deansgate Building University of M...
Wednesday, 21 December 2011

Experimental pig husbandry: soil studies from West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village, Suffolk, UK

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Introduction Pig husbandry is practised across the world and often identified in the archaeological record from bones, sometimes also s...
Saturday, 17 December 2011

University of Oxford Online Archaeology Courses

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Enrolment is now open for the following University of Oxford online courses in archaeology: Archaeology of the Bible Lands (Online) Explorin...
Thursday, 8 December 2011

Skeletons under patio

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A COUPLE were shocked to discover a number of bodies under their patio during construction work at their home in Ratley last week. ...

Archaeologists unearth 7th-century house in Yorkshire Dales

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Humanity's long attachment to Yorkshire has notched up another piece of early evidence with the discovery of the first 7th-century ho...
Thursday, 24 November 2011

Saxon burial ground under Warwickshire couple's home

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A Warwickshire man has described the moment builders found human bones under his patio. Stephen and Nicky West were having their home r...
Sunday, 23 October 2011

Archaeology Courses at the Oxford Experience 2012

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1 July to 11 August 2012 The 2012 Oxford Experience Programme is now online. The Oxford Experience is a residential summer scho...
Wednesday, 19 October 2011

Staffordshire Gold Hoard

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One day, or perhaps one night, in the late seventh century an unknown party traveled along an old Roman road that cut across an uninhab...
Sunday, 9 October 2011

Bicester Anglo-Saxon skeletons re-interred

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Fifteen Anglo-Saxon skeletons unearthed in Oxfordshire last year have been re-interred in a church memorial garden. A requiem mass w...
Friday, 7 October 2011

Converting the Isles

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On Friday and Saturday 23 - 24 September 2011, the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic (University of Cambridge) hosted a two-day ...