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Archaeology: A Bad Science?

Introduction Archaeology, often hailed as the key to understanding our past, stands at a contentious crossroads between the humanities and The post Archaeology: A Bad Science? appeared first on Prehistoric [...]

The Impact of New Technologies: How the James Webb Space Telescope and LiDAR Are Rewriting History

Introduction Throughout history, the tools and technologies we use to observe the world have fundamentally shaped our understanding. From the The post The Impact of New Technologies: How the James [...]

Mathematics Meets Archaeology: Discovering the Mesolithic Origins of Car Dyke

Introduction In archaeology, theories about ancient structures and sites have traditionally been shaped by subjective interpretations, often constrained by the The post Mathematics Meets Archaeology: Discovering the Mesolithic Origins of [...]

Car Dyke – Mesolithic Origin

This is a primary report of the first LiDAR mapping of Car Dyke in Lincolnshire – Book to be released The post Car Dyke – Mesolithic Origin appeared first on [...]

Rethinking Ancient Boundaries: The Vallum and Offa’s Dyke”

Introduction History brims with unsung heroes, those outsiders whose contributions leap from the shadows, not through the traditional channels of The post Rethinking Ancient Boundaries: The Vallum and Offa’s Dyke” [...]

A417 Archaeology: Roman horse-changing station uncovered in Gloucestershire

Cotswold Archaeology: Taken from Current Archaeology magazine… Oxford Cotswold Archaeology (OCA) archaeologists working on the A417 archaeology of the Missing Link improvement scheme in Gloucestershire have uncovered a Roman mutatio [...]

No Man Left Behind: Recovering and commemorating the crew of ‘Little Boy Blue’

Cotswold Archaeology: During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) played a critical role in the Allied effort, conducting strategic bombing raids essential to weakening enemy forces. [...]

Anglo-Saxon remains discovered at Malmesbury’s Old Bell Hotel

Cotswold Archaeology: Burials dating back more than 1,000 years have been unearthed by our team, while working in the garden of The Old Bell Hotel in Malmesbury, Wiltshire. These Anglo-Saxon [...]

Geoarchaeology at Cotswold Archaeology

Cotswold Archaeology: Hello! I’m Holly, the new Geoarchaeology Manager, based at the Andover office. I’m excited to introduce Cotswold Archaeology’s new Geoarchaeology Department, and share the geoarchaeological services we now [...]

Street food – cooking in the medieval period at Wangford quarry

Cotswold Archaeology: A long term excavation at Wangford quarry in Suffolk, which has revealed a medieval kitchen, was bounded on two sides by ancient medieval routes – Green Lane ran [...]

Transport Scotland Framework for Archaeology

‘We are thrilled to have been selected by Transport Scotland for the Framework for Archaeology Services (Lot 3) for the provision of Non-Invasive and Invasive Investigations and Post-Excavation Services and [...]

MEDIEVAL 'CEMETERY SETTLEMENT' DISCOVERED IN MONEYGALL, COUNTY OFFALY

by Colm Moloney It is common practice for planners to attach conditions to Planning Permission for housing developments where there is potential to uncover archaeology. In a lot of situations, [...]

Graduate Trainee Programme

by Megan McGrath Before starting the Graduate Trainee Scheme with Rubicon Heritage, the only experience of archaeology I had outside of a classroom was a two-week field school I participated in [...]

N25 KILLEAGH PAVEMENT sTREnGTHENING sCHEME – ARCHAEOLOGical works ENTERS STAGE (iv)

by Jonathan Millar The east-bound lane was excavated in December of 2016. Rubicon Heritage are pleased to announce that Stage (iv) archaeological works (specialist analyses and reporting) have commenced for [...]

Five Mile Lane, Barry - eBook and StoryMap

Cover of the eBook: Guide to the Excavations at Five Mile Lane Rubicon are delighted to be able to share the results of our work at Five Mile Lane, Barry, [...]

A lovely day for a Megameet!

Firstly, an apology for the hiatus in posting here lately. Various factors, including a family holiday, meant that the journal has not been getting the attention it deserves of late. [...]

Megameet 2024 – This weekend at Avebury

As advised earlier this year, a Memorial Megameet for Nigel Swift, who sadly left us in February this year, will be held at Avebury stone circle, this coming Saturday 17th. [...]

The High Cross At High Cross, Constantine – Rediscovered, Relocated And Damaged But Still Standing

By Myghal Map Serpren The granite wheel-headed Mediaeval (1066 to 1539) cross now standing at High Cross, Constantine in Cornwall has had something of a chequered history during which it [...]

The Hervan – A Weather-beaten Standing Stone On Cornwall’s Lizard Peninsula

By Myghal Map Serpren The Menhir This substantial menhir is found on a service road leading to Predannack airfield on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall. It is immediately adjacent to [...]

The Stonehenge tunnel scam 2013-2024

The Stonehenge tunnel has been cancelled forever, and the view of the stones from the A303 has been preserved. And yet the Heritage Journal didn’t splash a “Hooray!” online. The [...]

From petty crimes to ‘poor man’s bread’ – the surprising value of watercress revealed in the Worcestershire Petty Sessions

Stealing of watercress recorded in the Stourport on Severn-Petty sessions at Ref 499.1 BA8470/28 p.73 Petty Sessions and Magistrates Court records are amongst some of the huge variety of [...]

Brass Bands

While enjoying Pershore Midsummer Brass Festival this month we thought we would look through the archives for material on brass bands. Pershore Midsummer Brass is held on the first Saturday [...]

Celebrating Gypsy, Roma, Traveller Roots in Worcestershire

This Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month, we look back at the lives, histories and culture of a community crucial to the development of our county. Established in June 2008, [...]

Redditch New Town Archives: Heritage and the ‘Old Town’

This is the fourth and final blog of this Redditch New Town series. In this blog we explore the work the Corporation did to spread the word of the town’s [...]

The New Burdens project

Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service (WAAS) is embarking on an exciting 2 year project to catalogue a range of public records as a result of New Burdens funding. The funding [...]

Archaeology professors join forces again for new guide to stone circles

The stone circles of Britain and Ireland are the subject of a new book from Professors Colin Richards and Vicki Cummings. The post Archaeology professors join forces again for new [...]

MLitt graduate’s peer-reviewed paper published in experimental archaeology journal

A peer-reviewed paper by Andrew Fitches, a graduate of our MLitt in Archaeological Studies programme, and Dr Ben Elliot has been published in the EXARC Journal. The post MLitt graduate’s [...]

Institute researchers heading to Norway for project investigating prehistoric climate change

Professor Ingrid Mainland and Associate Professor Scott Timpany have been awarded funding to participate in the international 'Climate, Crops and Crisis' research project. The post Institute researchers heading to Norway [...]

Art and archaeology students feature in science festival exhibition and talk

The work of two MA Contemporary Art and Archaeology students feature in an Orkney International Science Festival exhibition, which opens next week. The post Art and archaeology students feature in [...]

The dig of a lifetime – UHI students help excavate rediscovered Neolithic chambered cairn

A group of UHI Archaeology Institute students are participating in the excavation of a lifetime in Orkney’s East Mainland – investigating a Neolithic chambered cairn in the parish of Holm. [...]

Unearthing Ancient Tweeddale

‘Merlin’s Grave’ and other lost stories embedded in the landscape On the banks of the Tweed in the Scottish Borders is the reputed site of Merlin’s Grave, the embedded remnant [...]

Excavating the CA archives – The Channel Islands and the Isle of Man

Since CA 360 (March 2020) I have criss-crossed the United Kingdom, examining its history through the eyes of Current Archaeology. I have now visited every county in every country, but [...]

Current Archaeology 415 – ON SALE NOW

This month’s cover story takes us to Drumelzier in the Scottish Borders, and more specifically to a site with a wonderfully romantic name: Merlin’s Grave. A community project has been [...]

Stonehenge and the moon

Exploring a Neolithic monument’s lunar links Stonehenge is famous for its association with the sun, and particularly with the summer and winter solstices – but did the movement of the [...]

Excavating the CA archives – the Ridgeway

I concluded last month’s column just east of Avebury at the Sanctuary, a Neolithic and Bronze Age site that is also the start and end point of the Ridgeway, an [...]

Drones Find Evidence Roman Siege Of Masada Lasted Much Shorter Than Previously Thought

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient Masada stronghold is situated on an isolated rock plateau at the western end of the Judean Desert, near the Dead Sea's western shore. [...]

Qunkasaura: New Cretaceous Sauropod Found In Iberian Peninsula

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new study reports a new species of sauropod dinosaur that lived in Cuenca, Spain, 75 million years ago: Qunkasaura pintiquiniestra. General view of [...]

How Henry VIII Accidentally Changed The Way We Write History

AncientPages.com - In 1534, King Henry VIII infamously broke away from the Catholic Church, becoming the head of the Church of England. Following this, two lesser-known acts were passed, the Suppression [...]

Vikings’ Encounters With Peculiar White-Dressed Humanoids And Cave Dwellers In Unknown Lands Described In Norse Sagas

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Norse Sagas offer entertainment and historical insight. These narratives, predominantly recorded in the 13th century, provide detailed accounts of early Viking expeditions, conflicts, exotic [...]

Extraordinary Kite-Shaped Pictish Ring Found At Moray Fort In Scotland

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The archaeological excavation at the Burghead fort in Moray has yielded a significant discovery: a Pictish ring with an intricate setting. This find is particularly [...]

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