UK Culture Minister Caroline Dinenage has placed a temporary export bar on a panel of mosaic from a Roman villa at Dewlish, Dorset, excavated by WG Putman between 1969-1979. The mosaic is currently in a […]
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ALEKSA VUČKOVIĆ writing on Ancient Origins has published an interesting article “The Reign of Aethelwulf, King of Wessex: Between Realm and Religion”. “Early historians often dismissed Aethelwulf’s reign as uneventful and his rule as pious […]
The origin of the giant sarsen stones at Stonehenge has finally been discovered with the help of a missing piece of the site which was returned after 60 years, reports the BBC. “A test of […]
Twenty-nine studies, covering a wide range of themes, present the most up-to-date thinking on the history, archaeology and toponymy of Anglo-Saxon England, with particular attention to Wessex, in honour of Professor Barbara Yorke. This book, […]
Buildings found during excavations at Bath Abbey are the first Anglo-Saxon stone structures to be identified within Bath, and may belong to the monastery where Edgar was crowned as first King of England. Wessex Archaeology […]
Work has been progressing on the Roman Town House in Dorchester, with a £248,000 grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Dorset Council officers and archaeologists from Context One Heritage & Archaeology are working on […]
A previously undiscovered 2 km wide circle of prehistoric shafts has been found near Stonehenge. They surround the ancient settlement of Durrington Walls, about 3 km from Stonehenge. The shafts measure more than 10 metres […]
Archaeologists working on the Somerset County Council-owned, land at the site of a new school have discovered some 50 burials dating from the Roman period (43-410 AD) on the site of the new school that […]
The Ancient Ways of Wessex Travel and Communication in an Early Medieval Landscape is a 256 page book written by Alex Langlands and published by Windgather Press, that tells the story of Wessex’s roads in […]
In late 2015 Wessex Archaeology started the excavation of a large Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Bulford which presented the opportunity to carry out some tests to investigate the best, most cost-effective and efficient way to record […]
An excavation by Wessex Archaeology West in Hucclecote, Gloucester sought to establish whether a site at the Hucclecote Centre, in Chuchdown Lane had some relationship with a known Roman villa to its north. The villa, […]
A controversial plan for a 1.8 mile road tunnel for the A303 where it passes Stonehenge has been finalised by the government, after years of delays. The tunnel forms part of a £2bn government plan […]