Sheltered from Oxford's hubbub, the garden is enclosed by wisteria-laden grade II listed walls, the college's famous 17th century library and the Georgian-esque splendour of the Provost's house (ac...
The Festival has been funded by a £198,000 ‘Exceptional Award’ from Arts Council England - Hoard Festival features 22 plays in total – 19 new commissions, 14 writers, 10 theatre-makers, a very hard...
Situated halfway between Market Harborough and Husbands Bosworth, on the Northamptonshire side of the River Welland, is the sleepy little village of Marston Trussell. Part of the site lies within t...
Waterloo Uncovered... Historians have relied on first hand accounts that are unreliable and biased; vision often obscured by smoke, mind confused by battle noise, and no common method of timekeepi...
The battle of June 18, 1815, saw British and Prussian forces defeat Napoleon's French in what is now Belgium, dealing the final blow to the empire he had established, at a cost of almost 50,000 dea...
Funded Places and Scholarships at the DIGITAL DESIGN STUDIO : The Glasgow School of Art Candidates will become familiar with the range of skills needed for the meaningful 3D documentation of cultu...
Waterloo Uncovered... Historians have relied on first hand accounts that are unreliable and biased; vision often obscured by smoke, mind confused by battle noise, and no common method of timekeepi...
The project arose from pilot projects undertaken by Cotswold Archaeology1 and funded by English Heritage and it began in 2012. It is funded by grants from the Leverhulme Trust to the Universities o...
Plans to slash Northamptonshire County Council’s archive and heritage service budget by £25,000 could have a ‘negative impact’ in preserving the county’s history.
The Spir Mountain cairns are located near to the Swedish city of Örnsköldsvik in Norrland. These two exceptionally well preserved Early Bronze Age cairns are arguably the finest examples of this re...
The first week of the new season started on the 18th of May. This was a one week course for archaeologically inclined members of the public and we were joined by Roy, an IT specialist from the UK, and Damien, a road traffic accident investigator from Dublin, and of course Abigail, who has come back to Achill Archaeological Field School for a second year, this time as a Trainee Supervisor. After an introduction session in the Field School’s Lecture Room, we headed up to Slievemore to begin the excavation at the Cromlech Tumulus site and associated Danish Ditch or prebog field wall. - See more at: http://www.archaeological.org/news/achillisland/19416#sthash.9z9i8bhF.dpuf
The finds from both the evaluation and the excavation are very interesting: they include a large quantity of worked bone offcuts and ‘wasters’ (spoilt products), representing the important medieval...
This set of seven squat, cylindrical, lead, or lead-alloy, weights was recovered from a single feature. The four largest weights have coins set into their tops. It has been suggested that the coins...
Between the 18th November 2013 and 13th January 2014, the Surrey County Archaeological Unit (SCAU) conducted an archaeological strip, map and sample excavation on the site of the planned Cranmere S...
The Ministry of Antiquities’ decision to remove artefacts unearthed on the site of Al-Abd Theatre in Alexandria and hand the land over to its original owner triggers a controversy
At the archaeological investigations ahead of the construction of the future Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link, in Denmark archaeologists from Museum Lolland-Falster have found an object that is attracting p...
The Manchester team - one of only two operating in non-Kurdish Iraq – has just returned from three months of fieldwork there. During the team’s time in Iraq, Islamic State militants destroyed ruins...
In September 2014, a remarkable find was made on the site of a bronze Roman figurine, about four inches high, of an upright bird-like figure with a human head. Trust archaeologist Ben Holloway mad...
In 1977 this church was converted for use as a museum, focusing on the maritime heritage of Nefyn and the surrounding area. Unfortunately the museum was forced to close in 2000 but seven years late...
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