As you’ll know, Stonehenge didn’t exist in splendid isolation but was part of an extraordinary complex of monuments ranging in size from...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

Ok, as promised, here is some more of the archaeology we got to see in Anglesey on our weekend away! As last week we focused on the...

War Memorial at Saltburn, N Yorks Hot off the press is the latest blog from  one our favourite archaeologists – The Urban Prehistorian...

As archaeologists Ian and I love nothing better than wandering around archaeological sites, ruins and museums. Of course this doesn’t...

What a wonderful day we had in Cheshire! Armed with our trenches, tools and artefacts, Dr Ian Parker Heath (trusty archaeologist husband...

At the end of my prehistoric archaeology workshops, teachers often say to me that they have learned as much as the children have. Of...

After delivering a workshop covering the Stone Age to Iron Age to Y4s at St Andrews CE Primary School in Levenshulme in October, the...

Y3s at Aughton St Michaels CE Primary School in Ormskirk became archaeologists for the morning when they excavated artefacts from the...

I’m pleased to announce that over the past few weeks I have delivered my first archaeology workshops relating directly to the new primary...

For the first time since the National Curriculum was put in place, prehistory is now part of the Primary History Curriculum.  Of course,...