News Round Up

Sudeley Castle has been home to some of the most famous monarchs in English history. It’s where Anne Boleyn stayed with Henry VIII when he decided to dissolve the monasteries, and where Katherine Parr, Henry’s last wife, lived after he died. It’s…

We will be concentrating our excavations on the possible medieval manorial complex, to the north of the late Bronze Age hillfort, which has been identified from earthworks and recently discovered pottery All techniques offered on the course are…

Two thousand years ago, the Romans marched north and established a centre at York. But while archaeologists have found many later Roman settlements from the 3rd and 4th centuries AD, only a handful of sites inhabited by the earliest Roman settlers…

Sitting on a small tidal island opposite the famous Bamburgh Castle, King Oswald chose Lindisfarne as the place to establish a monastery in AD 635. But it was no ordinary monastery: it quickly grew to become the golden heart of the Anglo-Saxon…

We are always looking for volunteers to help with archaeological work throughout the Falkirk district. Some of this work is pre-planned as indicated in the following list, but much is in response to circumstances. Each year, for example a…

The Galway Archaeological Field School provides students with hands-on experience of the archaeology and architecture of medieval Ireland. We specialise in this field and seek to immerse our students in the wealth of medieval castles, churches and…

The Knowe of Swandro is being destroyed by coastal erosion. The site includes a Neolithic chambered tomb and a large multi-period settlement, consisting of Iron Age roundhouses, Pictish buildings (including a smithy, where one of the stone anvils…

Since 2016 Aldington & Romney Archaeology have been engaging in excavations to uncover the story behind Thomas Becket’s palace at Aldington.   Around 800 CE the records at Canterbury state that the original church has been replaced by the first…

LYON, FRANCE—According to a Cosmos report, Alban Defleur and Emmanuel Desclaux of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) suggest that the condition of the bones of six Neanderthals unearthed in a cave at Baume Moula-Guercy in the…

VALENCIA, SPAIN—Live Science reports that researchers from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and the company InHeritag3D have created a 3-D rendering of the medieval warlord Ali Atar’s Nasrid sword, which was taken after his death during the…

ATHENS, GREECE—A new study of a monument built in Greece near the city of Nicopolis to commemorate Octavian’s victory over Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, and her Roman lover, Mark Antony, in the Ionian Sea at the Battle of Actium has provided new…

Excavating Tudor history. In our fifth and final season of the Bradgate Park Fieldschool we will be focussing attention on excavating the childhood home of Lady Jane Grey: the nine days Tudor queen. Our previous excavations within Bradgate House…

Aden Mansion House is now a ruin. It was probably built around 1758 after the Russell family acquired the estate. It was reconstructed in 1832-3 by John Smith and fell into disrepair in the 1920s. A geophysical survey revealed details of the gardens…

The start of an exciting new archaeological investigation into the heritage of Alton, Hampshire and part of The Festival of Archaeology.  Crop marks within the Town Gardens in the hot, dry summer of 2018, led to a geophysical survey in the park. The…

A continuation of Stroud Big Dig (2016/2017), Liss Archaeology are continuing exploration of the area with the focus for 2019 being in fields just outside the village.  Test pits and field walking here revealed previously unknown Romano-British…

Built in 1169 AD/CE, Ferrycarrig is crucial to our understanding of the earliest stages of the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland. The first permanent Anglo-Norman fortification to be built in Ireland, the site comprised a ringwork castle placed on a…

All the posters designed by master of communication Abram Games during World War Two go on display in a major exhibition at the National Army Museum Abram Games’ well-known dictum: “maximum meaning, minimum means” together with his masterful use of…

The Science Museum has been mining its collection for a video series called Stories from the Stores – which goes behind the scenes with its curators As you might expect it’s a pretty eclectic trawl that includes a clock which tells time through…

The art of Norman Cornish, the most famous member of the fabled Pitman’s Academy, is celebrated with  a series of centenary exhibitions and events across County Durham The paintings and drawings of Norman Cornish MBE (1919 – 2014) tell a story of…

The Museum crush guide to the best exhibitions in London in 2019. Updated quarterly.