Tuesday, 24 June 2014

Major dig planned at Battle of Hastings sites

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One of the world’s top battlefield archaeologists is to lead an ambitious project which aims to finally unearth remains from the Battle of ...
Monday, 16 June 2014

Preserving the Battle of Hastings from contamination

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The Battle of Hastings is regularly fought all over again by enthusiastic re-enactors, before large crowds of spectators. The problem is th...
Wednesday, 28 May 2014

Decoding Anglo-Saxon art

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Silver-gilt square-headed brooch from Grave 22, Chessell Down, Isle of Wight. Early Anglo-Saxon, early 6th century AD One of the most ...
Friday, 23 May 2014

Skeleton executed by sword blows to head poses questions on Norman Conquest

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A potentially groundbreaking discovery has been announced as part of the 750th anniversary commemorations of the Battle of Lewes in Susse...
Tuesday, 13 May 2014

DORSET VIKING AGE MASS BURIAL PUBLICATION

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I n 2009 during the construction of the Weymouth Relief Road in Dorset archaeologists from Oxford Archaeology made one of the most exciti...
Tuesday, 6 May 2014

Burg der Zurückgelassenen

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In den "dunklen Jahrhunderten" des frühen Mittelalters war nicht viel los zwischen Elbe und Weser - glaubte man. Doch neue Fund...
Thursday, 1 May 2014

Vikings Online Course

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Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers   12 May to 25 July 2014 Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers  is an online archaeology...
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...