Sutton Hoo is best known as the location of an astonishing ‘princely’ Anglo-Saxon ship burial – but the site has compelling stories to tell about women too. We explore the lives of five fascinating females linked with the 7th-century site.…
So far, the team have uncovered pottery remains, fish bones, stone yards, and wall structures.…
'The Saint-Bélec Slab highlights the cartographic knowledge of past societies that we tend to underestimate in the era of the GPS.'…
The Mary Rose museum at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard was reopened 471 years to the day since the sinking of Henry VIII’s flagship – for the first time giving the public a clear view of her hull…
The arsenal of iron shot that was carried aboard Henry VIII’s flagship, the Mary Rose, may have once struck fear into the hearts of the French fleet, but today they are somewhat more delicate. How do you stop the rot?…
On the 11 October 1982 a pioneering campaign of underwater excavations culminated in the raising of Henry VIII’s flagship, the Mary Rose. That was only the beginning of a programme of research and conservation that continues to this day.…
The artefacts, dating from the 9th-17th century AD, all once belonged to wealthy members of Welsh society.…
‘If untreated, the fireplace could crumble quickly.’…
Evidence of Late Mesolithic and Bronze activity has been discovered on a Welsh island.…
Henry VIII’s flagship, the Mary Rose, famously sank in the Solent almost 500 years ago. Her partial remains were recovered by archaeologists in 1982 – what has been learned since then? We explore some of the latest thinking on the Tudor vessel’s appearance and her crew.…
The British Museum reports that the snail-man mount could have been the medieval equivalent of a modern-day ‘meme’.…