Sunday, 29 September 2013

Mildenhall Museum ready for Anglo-Saxon warrior & horse

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The warrior and his horse are being displayed as they were found in the grave at RAF Lakenheath A Suffolk museum has taken delivery of...

Archaeologists unearth section of an Anglo Saxon cross in Weardale

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Paul Frodsham, of the AONB Partnership, shows off the section of an Anglo Saxon cross unearthed during a dig in Frosterley ARCHAELOGIS...
Tuesday, 24 September 2013

Norfolk dig uncovers Anglo-Saxon oven

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The oven could be used for at least three tasks - to bake bread, malt barley and dry out grain A structure uncovered by archaeologists...
Monday, 9 September 2013

Saxon remains to be reburied after dig

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Saxon remains found during an archaeological dig at an abbey in Warwickshire are being reburied at a church service later. Radiocarbon d...

Saxon graveyard unearthed in Suffolk

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A team of archaeologists has returned to a Suffolk river bank to complete a dig at an early Christian burial site. The team has returned...
Friday, 16 August 2013

Oxford Experience 2014

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The programme for the Oxford Experience Summer School is now online.  Registration will not begin until late September, but now is the ti...
Saturday, 27 July 2013

Traces of 'lost village' found in Nottinghamshire

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Experts say the presence of Medieval pottery suggests the presence a community that possibly dates from before the Norman conquest Rem...

Possible Saxon bread oven found in Norfolk

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A 1,300-year-old bread oven could have been discovered by a group of volunteer archaeologists in Norfolk. The suspected oven could have ...
Friday, 5 July 2013

Barrow Clump 2013: Phil's Round-up Week One

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Following on from the fantastic success of the  Operation Nightingale  excavation at  Barrow Clump  last summer, the soldiers have retur...
Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Saxon skeleton discovered in Lincoln Castle

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A Saxon skeleton believed to be a king or bishop has been discovered in Lincoln Castle. The Saxon skeleton was in a stone sarcopha...
Tuesday, 25 June 2013

The Sutton Hoo Online Exhibition

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In 1939, just before the outbreak of the Second World War, an archaeologist named Basil Brown excavated the largest of 18 burial mounds i...

From Sutton Hoo to the soccer pitch: culture with a click

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Museums, libraries and galleries are a tourist staple of the summer holiday season. Often they’re the first place we head to when visitin...
Sunday, 2 June 2013

HaNoA - Häfen im Nordatlantik

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Der Hafen von Búðasandur, Hvalfjörður, Island. Die Überreste eines Handelsplatzes befinden sich in der Bildmitte, das mittelalterliche ...
Tuesday, 14 May 2013

High-tech dig finds Roman farmstead

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A high-tech research park is going to be built on land that once housed a Roman farmstead. An archaeological dig on the site of what will ...
Friday, 26 April 2013

Online Courses in Archaeology

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University of Oxford Online Courses in Archaeology Cave paintings, castles and pyramids, Neanderthals, Romans and Vikings - archaeol...
Sunday, 21 April 2013

The Battle of Fulford: War breaks out over 'forgotten' Yorkshire battlefield

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Local historians say it's the site of the curtain-raiser to Hastings in 1066. The council wants to build hundreds of houses on it ...
Monday, 15 April 2013

Northampton Castle dig reveals Saxon past

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A "rare" Saxon brooch, a medieval harness, pottery and animal bones are among items found by archaeologists at Northampton's...
Friday, 12 April 2013

Northampton Castle dig reveals Saxon past

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A "rare" Saxon brooch, a medieval harness, pottery and animal bones are among items found by archaeologists at Northampton's...
Sunday, 7 April 2013

Unmarked grave dug up in hunt for England's King Alfred the Great

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Archaeologists dug up an unmarked grave in a quiet English churchyard in search of remains of King Alfred the Great, a ninth century mo...
Saturday, 23 March 2013

Online Viking Course

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Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers University of Oxford  Online and Distance Learning 8 May to 21 July 2013 Ravagers, despoile...