itv news report that human remains have been found buried under the ruined church at the heart of Castle Park […]
Ancient Wessex News
Wessex Archaeology have published an interesting article “THE AMESBURY ARCHER: 20 YEARS ON” with some recent posts and news items […]
Mark Johnston writing on Ancient Origins has published an interesting article “The Question of Ancient Kings: Cerdic of Wessex, First […]
Andover Museum and Museum of the Iron Age open a new exhibition DANEBURY – Past and Present Footsteps on view […]
Wessex Archaeology has carried out an excavation of a Bronze Age settlement at Bitham Park in Wiltshire. “Wessex Archaeology was […]
Archaeologists working on HS2 have made discoveries of national significance, uncovering an Anglo-Saxon burial site in Wendover, Buckinghamshire. Almost three […]
An early Roman rare wooden carved figure has been discovered during work on the HS2 project. In July 2021, archaeologists […]
The world of Stonehenge on view through 17 July 2022 is the UK’s first ever major exhibition on the story […]
Stonehenge may have served as an ancient solar calendar, according to research conducted by Professor Timothy Darvill, from Bournemouth University […]
Four rare Late Neolithic chalk plaques from the Stonehenge region have been subjected to non-invasive Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) technology […]
The BBC reports that achaeologists who uncovered the remains of the Waun Mawn site in Pembrokeshire’s Preseli Hills, believe the […]
Sidestone Press has published STONEHENGE FOR THE ANCESTORS: PART 1: Landscape and Monuments by Mike Parker Pearson, Joshua Pollard, Colin […]
The proposed A303 Stonehenge tunnel project has been approved by the UK the Secretary State for Transport. The road will […]
Wessex Archaeology Limited has won a £35 million contract for archaeological protection and excavation work ahead of the A303 Amesbury […]
The burial, on a hilltop site near Marlow with views over the surrounding Thames valley, must be of 6th century […]
Wessex Archaeology have posted an interesting news article “Salisbury Sites: 40 years of Wessex Archaeology excavations”. “Since 1980, when an […]
A new study, carried out by acoustics engineers from the University of Salford in Greater Manchester suggests that Stonehenge was […]
Interesting map video – The History of Wessex by Ollie Bye on You Tube. “Around 495 CE, a Saxon chieftain […]
UK Culture Minister Caroline Dinenage has placed a temporary export bar on a panel of mosaic from a Roman villa […]
ALEKSA VUČKOVIĆ writing on Ancient Origins has published an interesting article “The Reign of Aethelwulf, King of Wessex: Between Realm […]
The origin of the giant sarsen stones at Stonehenge has finally been discovered with the help of a missing piece […]
Twenty-nine studies, covering a wide range of themes, present the most up-to-date thinking on the history, archaeology and toponymy of […]
Buildings found during excavations at Bath Abbey are the first Anglo-Saxon stone structures to be identified within Bath, and may […]
Work has been progressing on the Roman Town House in Dorchester, with a £248,000 grant from the National Lottery Heritage […]
A previously undiscovered 2 km wide circle of prehistoric shafts has been found near Stonehenge. They surround the ancient settlement […]
Archaeologists working on the Somerset County Council-owned, land at the site of a new school have discovered some 50 burials […]
The Ancient Ways of Wessex Travel and Communication in an Early Medieval Landscape is a 256 page book written by […]
In late 2015 Wessex Archaeology started the excavation of a large Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Bulford which presented the opportunity to […]
An excavation by Wessex Archaeology West in Hucclecote, Gloucester sought to establish whether a site at the Hucclecote Centre, in […]
A controversial plan for a 1.8 mile road tunnel for the A303 where it passes Stonehenge has been finalised by […]
The three volumes of the Research Framework consist of a Resource Assessment of the Avebury part of the World Heritage […]
Archaeologists have found a unique double henge at Bulford, the only known example in Britain. The double henge is within […]
A prehistoric complex has been recently discovered near the Stonehenge & Avebury World Heritage Site. Located at Larkhill, Wiltshire, just […]
A 3,000-year-old complete Bronze Age wheel has been found at Must Farm in Cambridgeshire. The 3ft-diameter (one metre) wooden wheel […]
The UK’s best preserved Bronze Age dwellings, including roundhouses have been found at a Cambridgeshire quarry. The archaeological site, with […]
The School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford is engaged in a research project “The Origins of Wessex” focusing […]
As part of the visitor centre at Stonehenge, English Heritage commissioned Dorset Archaeologists from Dorset County Council’s Ancient Technology Centre […]
Salisbury Museum’s new Wessex Gallery showcases over 2,500 rare objects which tell the story of early Britain from the ancient […]
Founded in 2004, the Wessex Centre for History and Archaeology (WCHA) encourages and co-ordinates research within the Wessex region (defined […]
One of Britain’s biggest and best-preserved prehistoric settlements has been unearthed near Plymouth in Devon, reports the Western Morning News. […]