The three volumes of the Research Framework consist of a Resource Assessment of the Avebury part of the World Heritage Site. Summarising the known archaeological and historical record and the key techniques used in their […]

A prehistoric complex has been recently discovered near the Stonehenge & Avebury World Heritage Site. Located at Larkhill, Wiltshire, just 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Stonehenge, the newly discovered 200m-diameter (656 foot) “causewayed” enclosure, […]

A 3,000-year-old complete Bronze Age wheel has been found at Must Farm in Cambridgeshire. The 3ft-diameter (one metre) wooden wheel dates from about 1,100 to 800 BC. Archaeologists described the find – made close one […]

The UK’s best preserved Bronze Age dwellings, including roundhouses have been found at a Cambridgeshire quarry. The archaeological site, with artefacts dating about 1,000-800 BC, at Must Farm quarry near Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, has been described […]

The School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford is engaged in a research project “The Origins of Wessex” focusing on the kingdom, of the West Saxons. The aim of which is to identify places […]

As part of the visitor centre at Stonehenge, English Heritage commissioned Dorset Archaeologists from Dorset County Council’s Ancient Technology Centre (ATC) in Cranborne, to build authentic Neolithic houses and help discover how people may have […]

Founded in 2004, the Wessex Centre for History and Archaeology (WCHA) encourages and co-ordinates research within the Wessex region (defined as the historic counties of Dorset, Hampshire, and Wiltshire). The WCHA develops the University of […]

One of Britain’s biggest and best-preserved prehistoric settlements has been unearthed near Plymouth in Devon, reports the Western Morning News. The excavation is one of the largest investigations of its type undertaken. Evidence of several […]