Welcome to the first of our new occasional blogs “What’s in your parish?” in which we’ll take a look at what archaeology can be, or has...

Back in December I visited the excavations at a site called Must Farm near Peterborough. It is a fantastically preserved Bronze Age house...

St Peter’s, Titchfield, Hampshire. Churches are just one of our ritual sites. To paraphrase that Fast Show character “Aren’t churches...

Members of the 2009 Stonehenge Riverside Project photographing the joints on the top of one of the uprights. Once again the nation’s...

Catherine and I recently had the chance to visit the British Museum to catch two of their featured exhibitions – The Celts: Art &...

The arrival of 2016 has brought more archaeology programmes to our television screens with two new series airing this week. The BBC...

Last week I have the opportunity of visiting Must Farm,  a Bronze Age settlement site, with members of the Prehistoric Society. Right...

As ever, there’s always something happening with Britain’s number one archaeological site, so we thought we’d take the opportunity to...

I recently posted a review of the Manchester Archaeology Day conference which was held at the University of Salford. One of the things I...

Introduction As with our earlier posts on the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic, we are going to break down the Neolithic in Britain to more...

The Peel Building, University of Salford Saturday saw the 9th Manchester Archaeology Day – and this was an excellent chance to catch up...

Well, while schools are getting settled in and universities are gearing up to the new academic year, here are a few items from the world...

As if this summer hadn’t given us enough to think about with the excavations we reported on at Marden, Avebury and Dorstone Hill in our...

Last week the BBC aired the latest documentary in the Horizon franchise – First Britons. Since then there has been a lot of to-ing and...

Of course, it’s that time of year when parents, who may be teachers and vice versa, are looking for things to do with bored, restless and...

The busy summer of activity continues, and while some projects such as those at Dorstone, Marden and the Ardnamurchan Transitions Project...

This weekend saw me visit to 3 excavations of some importance in the story of our past. In terms of British prehistory the Neolithic is...

As promised Ian visited a number of excavations last week including Dorstone Hill – here’s his report. Hi everyone! Nice to be back after...

The summer of fantastic excavations on some of the most interesting sites from British Prehistory continues and now you can see some of...

Things are going nicely on top of Dorstone Hill. The second week of the excavation has revealed more of the structure and is looking...