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An enduring landscape: Uncovering 8,000 years of life and death on the Cotswold Edge

Recent excavations at Milestone Ground on the eastern edge of Broadway have revealed one of the most intriguing archaeological landscapes yet found in Worcestershire. Beneath quiet pasture lay evidence of human activity stretching back 8,000 years, including Mesolithic flint tools, Bronze Age burials, hundreds of Iron Age storage pits, a Roman farmstead, and the largest late Roman cemetery known in the county. Constance Mitchell reports.

Llanbedrgoch: Exploring a unique early medieval trading centre on Anglesey

Current Archaeology

Ninth-century Carolingian coins from the reigns of Louis the Pious and Charles the Bald are not the sort of objects you would expect to find on a remote farm on the Isle of Anglesey, so, when metal-detectorists began reporting these and other exceptional artefacts from the early medieval period, the National Museum of Wales (now Amgueddfa Cymru) sent Mark Redknap, then Curator of Medieval and Later Archaeology, to investigate. Between 1994 and 2012, Mark led ten seasons of fieldwork on the site, revealing the remains of a trading settlement with a form unparalleled in Wales. With the full report recently published, Chris Catling describes its key findings.

Lechlade’s buried secrets: Revisiting a long-lived ritual landscape in Gloucestershire

Current Archaeology

In 2017, excavations revealed an unusual Bronze Age burial alongside other signs of ceremonial activity spanning thousands of years. With some of the grave goods now on display, CA returns to the story of the Lechlade ‘chieftain’.

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Leading a life of luxury

Minerva Magazine

July 27, 2016

Dominic Green reports on what the discovery of fragments of Aegean-style frescoes and an extensive wine cellar can tell us about life in the Bronze Age palace being excavated at the Tel Kabri site in the Galilee region of Israel

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The secrets of Angkor Wat: how archaeology is rewriting history

World Archaeology

July 23, 2016

The stupendous temple of Angkor Wat and its forested environs are currently the focus of a major project involving LiDAR aerial laser-scanning and more. The archaeology is radically changing our understanding of this staggering site, but how? Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani get the inside story from project co-director Roland Fletcher.

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Democracy in Athens: power to the people?

Minerva Magazine

July 20, 2016

Paul Cartledge, who has written the biography of the revolutionary idea of democracy, explains how it was practised in ancient Athens where it originated.

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A colourful past: the art and science of illuminated manuscripts

Minerva Magazine

June 15, 2016

One of the ways that the Fitzwilliam Museum is celebrating its 200th anniversary is by the staging of a splendid exhibition of illuminated manuscripts at the end of July – a very fitting tribute to its founder, reports Theresa Thompson

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Buried between road and river: investigating a Roman cemetery in Leicester

Current Archaeology

June 8, 2016

Until recently, Leicester’s Roman cemeteries had seen little major excavation, and their burial practices were poorly understood. Now an investigation in the city’s West End has given a wealth of new insights into the Roman town’s diverse population, as Mathew Morris reveals.

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A tale of two Neolithics? Investigating the evolution of house societies in Orkney

Current Archaeology

May 4, 2016

For decades, the accepted view of the Orcadian Neolithic was one of two cultural packages with a sharp break in the middle. New research has revealed a much more complex and nuanced picture, however. Carly Hilts spoke to Colin Richards to find out more.

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Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village: finding the first farmers on the plains of North America

World Archaeology

April 20, 2016

Alan Outram and Adrien Hannus uncover one of the earliest communities to take up farming on the Northern Plains of South Dakota.

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The 17th Lancers Regiment at Ulundi, 4 July 1879

Military History

April 14, 2016

MHM Editor Neil Faulkner recalls a classic charge of British cavalry on a late 19th-century battlefield.

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The Battle of the Little Bighorn

Military History

April 11, 2016

25 June 1876. Fred Chiaventone reassesses that most-famous collision between US and Native American forces.

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New Bailey, Salford: prison’s industrial revolution

Current Archaeology

December 26, 2015

At its peak, New Bailey was the largest jail in England, but its imposing Georgian buildings were designed on the basis of radical progressive ideals. Modern development has wiped away all traces of the pioneering prison above ground, but archaeologists are now bringing its methods to light once more, as Rachael Reader and Michael Nevell explain.

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Keeping the family together: Canada Farm’s Bronze Age burials

Current Archaeology

December 8, 2015

Just how quickly did Bronze Age people bury their dead? New work by Lauren Bailey, Martin Green, and Martin J Smith at Canada Farm suggests that they went to some lengths to display the deceased prior to their finally entering the earth.

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Xijiadun: revealing domestic copper production on the Yangtze River

World Archaeology

November 17, 2015

How did copper production begin in China? Li Haichao discovers a site that overturns traditional models of the emerging copper industry.

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Huacas de Moche: revealing death and ritual in the shadow of the pyramids

World Archaeology

November 17, 2015

Blood-sacrifice and ritual extravaganzas could not save the Moche civilisation, but that did not stop them trying. Jorge Meneses tells CWA about the latest discoveries in the heart of the Moche capital, evidence of the grim public displays so intrinsic to this mighty empire.

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The Fenwick Treasure: Colchester during the Boudiccan War of Independence

Current Archaeology

October 9, 2015

Excavations in Colchester have revealed where a couple stashed their valuables before Boudicca sacked the city. These artefacts, and the charred debris found strewn above them, provide a poignant insight into those on the receiving end of the Iceni’s wrath. First, Philip Crummy and Adam Wightman shed light on a dark day in Colchester’s past, and then Nina Crummy guides us through the treasure itself.

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Chamber of Secrets: what lies behind the walls of Tutankhamun’s tomb?

World Archaeology

September 24, 2015

Telltale signs of a hidden doorway hint at more rooms beyond the boy king’s burial chamber. If so, what lies within? Could it be the tomb of his stepmother Queen Nefertiti that has for so long eluded discovery?

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Butser: back to the Neolithic

Current Archaeology

June 28, 2015

A new horizon has opened up at Butser Ancient Farm, the famed experimental archaeology site. A Neolithic enclosure now joins the farm’s recreated Iron Age and Roman dwellings. Tiffany Francis brings us up to date.

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War comes to Kansas: ‘Vengeance is in my heart, and death in my hand’

Military History

May 10, 2015

Atrocities were mercifully few in America’s most bloody war. But the exceptions were grim. Frederick Chiaventone recalls the Lawrence Massacre.

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Grave secrets: the children of the Reformation

Current Archaeology

April 30, 2015

What was it like to be a child growing up within the turbulence and destruction of Reformation England? Drawing on his research of over 4,500 skeletons, Bennjamin Penny-Mason reveals an untold story.