Tuesday, 29 April 2014

Skeletons of foetus, heavily pregnant woman and crammed men found at York church

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The foetal skeleton found at All Saints in York © Courtesy All Saints Church The bones of a foetus and its heavily pregnant mother have ...
Wednesday, 9 April 2014

Offa's Dyke evidence at Chirk suggests earlier build

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The border between England and Wales closely follows much of the dyke's route Archaeologists have uncovered evidence which suggest...
Monday, 17 March 2014

The Staffordshire Hoard - Unveiling the story so far

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The Staffordshire Hoard is the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found. In this film we find out about the first stage of conservati...
Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Royal settlement linked to Sutton Hoo treasures

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Finds from Rendlesham in Suffolk will go on display for the first time this week at the National Trust's Sutton Hoo visitor centre ...

Royal Anglo-Saxon settlement found

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The excavation in the 1930s of the Sutton Hoo site in Suffolk A lost settlement which housed the Anglo-Saxon royalty who created the f...

800-year-old monk found poking out of cliff face

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The thigh bones of a medieval monk have been found poking out of cliffs at Monknash in South Wales which was a former burial ground in the...

'Awesome' Viking warship 'struck terror into people'

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There are ghosts at the British Museum. Hulking, hairy, bloodthirsty warriors grunting in unison as they row the biggest warship of its ...
Saturday, 8 March 2014

The Vikings are here…

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Gareth Williams, Exhibition Curator, British Museum Lo, it is nearly thirty-five years since the Vikings last came to this Museum, an...
Friday, 28 February 2014

ANGLO-SAXON CEMETERY RESULTS QUESTION VIOLENT INVASION THEORY

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T he early fifth century transition from Roman Britain to Anglo-Saxon England is a poorly understood period in British history. Historic...

Shield-wearing skeleton, necklace and grave goods found in early Saxon inhumations

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The discovery of nine bodies in Cambridgeshire could reveal much about the little-known early Saxon period © Courtesy Pre-Construct Ar...
Tuesday, 25 February 2014

Haddenham dig yields finds dating back 1,400 years

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Archaeologists gained a valuable insight into life and death in Saxon England thanks to a dig in Haddenham.  A team of archaeologists...
Sunday, 23 February 2014

Village excavation turns up a wealth of finds dating back 1,400 years

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A team of archaeologists from Pre-Construct Archaeology carried out an excavation within the village of Haddenham in advance of the const...
Monday, 17 February 2014

Diet hints at cultural shift in Anglo-Saxon Britain

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Human remains dug up from an ancient grave in Oxfordshire add to a growing body of evidence that Britain's fifth-century transition fro...
Sunday, 16 February 2014

Ancient graves hint at cultural shift to Anglo-Saxon Britain

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Anglo-Saxon burial site, Oxfordshire. Credit: Oxford Archaeology Human remains dug up from an ancient grave in Oxfordshire add to a gr...
Thursday, 6 February 2014

CULTURAL IDENTITY – CELTIC AND ANGLO-NORMAN REALMS

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J utting out from the edge of the Lake District and home to a proud industrial heritage, the Furness Peninsula seems to weld together man...
Monday, 3 February 2014

Was Charlemagne a Mass Murderer?

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When he heard of this, the Lord King Charles rushed to the place with all the Franks he could gather on short notice and advanced to wher...
Sunday, 2 February 2014

Summer Courses in Archaeology

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The Oxford Experience Summer School Courses in Archaeology The Oxford Experience Summer School is held at Christ Church, Oxford ...

Training Digs for 2014

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Now is the time to start thinking about training digs for the summer. If you are planning to go on a training dig, take a look at our ...
Friday, 31 January 2014

The Vikings are coming…

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Iron axe-head found in the Thames at Hammersmith, Viking, 10th-11th century ( 1909,0626.8 ) Tom Williams, Project Curator: Vikings, Br...
Tuesday, 28 January 2014

Govan Stones: The Viking-Age treasures

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The sarcophagus dates back to about AD 900 A unique collection of Viking-age monuments, which lay unloved in a Govan churchyard for 1,...