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Current Archaeology 440

October 1, 2026
  • Burpham’s Big Dig: a tale of two Sussex villages
  • Encountering ordinary people in the Bayeux tapestry
  • The Wemyss caves: 40 years of community, conservation, and discovery
  • Defence to domesticity: exploring the evolution of Irish castles
  • Statements in stone: Neolithic architecture at the Ness of Brodgar
  • Community radiocarbon-dating fund (CARD) delivers further results
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    Current Archaeology 439

    September 3, 2026
  • Staffa: uncovering the hidden human history of a celebrated Scottish island
  • Bacon Hole: rediscovering Britain’s forgotten Ice Age cave art
  • Grave Concerns: exploring the history of the British cemetery and its uncertain future
  • Unearthing the Present: why archaeologists should study the present
  • Worth a thousand words: examining medieval wall-paintings at Goodrich Castle
  • Brutality at Brading? human remains from a Roman villa on the Isle of Wight
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    Current Archaeology 438

    August 6, 2026
  • How ancient DNA is illuminating the past and informing the present
  • Exploring elite insights from Iron Age Essex
  • A ‘prehistoric prototype’ for Stonehenge?
  • The Lexden lady: a rare lead coffin burial from Roman Colchester
  • New insights into the medieval parish churches of Norwich
  • Made in England: new thinking about the origins of the Sutton Hoo helmet
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    Current Archaeology 436

    June 4, 2026
  • The Berlanga Cup: piecing together Roman views of Hadrian’s Wall
  • Lost seal of Edward the Confessor found
  • Investigating Roman York’s gypsum burials
  • New perspectives on a Neolithic crannog on the Isle of Lewis
  • Exploring wartime archaeology at RAF East Fortune
  • Forging Scotland’s story: the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
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    Current Archaeology 435

    May 7, 2026
  • Buried at Broadway: uncovering 8,000 years of Worcestershire past
  • Llanbedrgoch: exploring a unique early medieval trading centre on Anglesey
  • Lechlade’s buried secrets: revisiting a long-lived ritual landscape in Gloucestershire
  • Marking five years since the return of Time Team
  • Aubrey Burl and The Stone Circles of the British Isles
  • Examining three early Anglo-Saxon burial sites from Buckinghamshire
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    Current Archaeology 433

    March 5, 2026
  • Prosperity and plague: Broughton Lodge’s Anglo-Saxon cemetery
  • Late Roman and early medieval silver
  • Examining the lives of Britain’s oldest church doors
  • Evidence of a Roman villa estate at Milton, Cambridgeshire
  • Sarsen study sheds new light on the construction of Stonehenge
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    Current Archaeology 432

    February 5, 2026
  • Exploring the archaeology of Ben Lomond
  • The history of the ‘Hill of Goats’: the Yeavering excavations
  • Surveying rock-art discoveries in the Peak District National Park
  • Tracing the evolution of attitudes towards mental health of Clifton Hospital, York
  • Special report: examining the Norfolk Carnyx Hoard
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    Current Archaeology 431

    January 8, 2026
  • Earliest evidence of human fire-making found in Suffolk
  • Exploring the geology of Hadrian’s Wall
  • Rediscovering West London’s lost landscapes at Sipson Farm
  • Lord of the Isles: uncovering Finlaggan’s elite archaeology
  • Hadrian’s Wall and its trees: from Sycamore Gap to the Vindolanda tablets
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    Current Archaeology 430

    December 4, 2025
  • Rendlesham rediscovered: landscapes of power in early medieval East Anglia
  • People of the past: Scotland’s archaeological human remains
  • Rediscovering the many lives of the Woolwich Rotunda
  • Exploring intertidal and inland sites with the Nautical Archaeology Society
  • Must Farm Bronze Age boats at Flag Fen Archaeology Park
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    Current Archaeology 429

    November 6, 2025
  • Examining the Norton Disney dodecahedron: a mysterious artefact from the Roman world
  • 100 years of Woodhenge: from discovery to new dating evidence

  • A store of secrets: excavating military kit and personal possessions at Caerleon
  • Stories from the soil: exploring treasure finds in north-west England and Wales
  • Making accommodations: how 19th-century housing helped women’s independence
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    Current Archaeology 428

    October 2, 2025
  • Cladh Hallan: examining life and death in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age
  • The dangerous dead: exploring the cross-cultural continuity of deviant burials
  • The people of St Peter’s: encountering a community from 19th-century Blackburn
  • A tale of two hoards: interpreting collections from Carnoustie and Rosemarkie
  • Testing times: insights from experimental archaeology
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    Current Archaeology 427

    September 4, 2025
  • Fashionable frescos: piecing together the cultural tastes of Roman London
  • Riverine reflections: the natural and cultural heritage of the Rother Valley
  • Little End: tracing the history of a long-vanished community
  • Celebrating the pioneering female archaeologists of Romano-British studies
  • DNA: revealing details of Anglo-Saxon diversity
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    Current Archaeology 426

    August 7, 2025
  • Chamber of secrets: what tombs can tell us about Neolithic society in Ireland
  • Languages without words: exploring Ice Age art
  • Exploring the Viking North: Scandinavian influences in early medieval England
  • From warship to whaler: solving the mystery of a shipwreck in Orkney
  • ‘Cathedrals of commerce’: the Golden Age of the British High Street
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    Current Archaeology 425

    July 3, 2025
  • Revealing Roman Wroxeter: new insights from one of Britannia’s largest urban centres

  • The archaeology of parish churches: the peculiarities of excavating in sacred spaces 

  • A midlands milestone: 30 years of excavations with ULAS
  • A life on the tiles: exploring the work of David Neal as artist and archaeologist
  • Cutting-edge science at Fort Cumberland: the future of studying the past

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    Current Archaeology 424

    June 5, 2025
  • Iron Age innovation or Roman land-grab? Exploring an evolving frontier landscape in South Yorkshire

  • A tale of two hillforts: investigating the inhabitants of Iron Age Leicestershire 

  • Words on the wave: tracing Continental connections in medieval Ireland

  • Subterranean Skye: exploring the significance of High Pasture Cave
  • Taking stock of the pot: creating and recreating the Glenfield Iron Age cauldrons
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    Current Archaeology 423

    May 1, 2025
  • Revealing a Roman landscape: 20 years of the Culver Archaeological Project
  • The Melsonby Hoard: exploring unprecedented insights into Iron Age Yorkshire
  • Paradise lost: rediscovering Attingham Park’s forgotten pleasure garden
  • Building the past: Butser Ancient Farm’s new Neolithic structure
  • From gasholders to chic apartments: tracing the history of an industrial icon
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    Current Archaeology 422

    April 3, 2025
  • Warhorse: exploring the archaeology of a medieval icon

  • Can archaeology save the world? Small wins and wicked problems

  • The basilica in the basement: rediscovering the heart of Roman London

  • Examining Quaker meeting houses: building a picture through architecture

  • Milestone discoveries: record years for the Portable Antiquities Scheme and Treasure finds
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    Current Archaeology 421

    March 6, 2025
  • Distilling a clandestine craft: exploring the archaeology of illicit whisky production

  • From Bayeux to Bosham: tracing ‘lordly sites’ in medieval England
  • Mesolithic microwear: interpreting ancient activities at Star Carr
  • A monumental undertaking: rethinking Crickley Hill’s mysterious mound
  • Turning on the waterworks: navigating the industrial architecture of the Victorian sanitary crisis
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