Friday, 27 July 2018

Soldiers find skeleton of Saxon warrior on Salisbury Plain

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This 6th century Saxon warrior with spear and sword, was found underneath a military trackway, frequently crossed by tanks and huge mili...
Thursday, 19 July 2018

These burial treasures open a window into early Anglo-Saxon East Anglia

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The Winfarthing Anglo-Saxon burial treasures. Courtesy Norwich Museums Dr Tim Pestell, Senior Curator of Archaeology at Norwich Castle ...
Wednesday, 20 June 2018

Archaeologists in Cambridgeshire find graves of two men with legs chopped off

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‘Somebody really, really didn’t like these guys,’ says Jonathan House, archaeologist with the Mola Headland Infrastructure team.  Photo...

How to decorate like a Viking

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Grand Designs, Viking edition. A new report recreates some of the colours used by Vikings to decorate their houses, including ochre and c...

DNA study reveals fate of Irish women taken by Vikings as slaves to Iceland

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The Sea Stallion from Glendalough, a reconstructed Viking ship [Credit: Eric Luke] The mapping of DNA from some of the settlers who col...
Monday, 18 June 2018

Inscribed seventh-century window ledge unearthed at Tintagel

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The slate ledge was found during excavations of Tintagel Castle in Cornwall, a site associated with the stories of King Arthur. Photograp...

Bedfordshire's first Roman town wall unearthed in Sandy

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Items discovered by Les Capon and his team include the skeleton of a woman, a funeral pyre, Roman rubbish and a pottery kiln Archaeolog...
Wednesday, 13 June 2018

Hidden writing in ancient desert monastery manuscripts

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Fr Justin is helping to share online the historic manuscripts in an ancient Sinai monastery For a monk who lives in the Sinai desert in...
Tuesday, 12 June 2018

South Downs skeleton 'executed 1,000 years ago'

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The well-preserved skeleton, thought to be from the 11th Century, was found during excavations in the South Downs A man whose remains w...
Monday, 7 May 2018

Beowulf: The enduring appeal of an Anglo-Saxon 'superhero story'

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Beowulf is the oldest surviving epic poem in the English language As the cold sting of winter finally starts to fade, so the literary f...
Friday, 30 March 2018

Anglo-Saxon settlement and Roman army camp found in A14 bypass dig

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An archaeologist excavates a skeleton in Cambridgeshire. Photograph: Highways  England/MOLA Headland Infrastructure It’s taken more t...
Thursday, 8 February 2018

Ancient artefacts found during Hornsea Project One wind farm work

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Thousands of artefacts and archaeological remains have been found during work to bury underground cables for an offshore wind farm. Coi...
Monday, 5 February 2018

Radiocarbon dating reveals mass grave did date to the Viking age

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A team of archaeologists, led by Cat Jarman from the University of Bristol's Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, has discovered ...

This Mass Grave May Belong to 'Great Viking Army'

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Bones are yielding new clues about the massive, mysterious Viking forces that invaded England. A photo taken at a 1982 excavation of th...
Friday, 2 February 2018

Canterbury artefacts 'may have been stolen by metal thieves'

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Two suspected metal thieves are believed to be behind the theft of an archaeological hoard including hundreds of Anglo-Saxon beads and i...

Thieves steal hundreds of priceless artefacts from Canterbury charity

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Priceless artefacts including 850 Anglo-Saxon beads have been stolen from an archaeological charity in Canterbury during a series of brea...
Monday, 27 November 2017

Archaeologists uncover ancient Viking camp from the 870s in village of Repton

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University of Bristol students excavated a Viking camp dating to a winter in the 870s (PA) A Viking camp that dates back to the 870s ha...

New Research on Viking Army Camp at Repton

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(Courtesy Cat Jarman) Archaeologists have turned up new evidence about a ninth-century Viking overwintering camp in the Derbyshire vill...
Tuesday, 17 October 2017

Using parchment to reveal the ancient lives of livestock

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A page from the York Gospels. Eraser rubbings left over from cleaning the pages of this manuscript revealed the ancient genomes of the an...
Monday, 16 October 2017

UK’s north-south divide dates back to Vikings, says archaeologist

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A division 1,000 years in the making? Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian The north-south divide has been the butt of jokes in ...