Excavating WWI practice trenches in Cumbria
As part of a Heritage Lottery Fund community project, established by internationally-renowned, artist-led company Art Gene Associates, Bristol archaeologist Dr George Nash and former...
Wessex Archaeology launch new Ebook Series
We are launching the new series with the Amesbury Archer and the Boscombe Bowmen Bell Beaker Burials at Boscombe Down, Amesbury, Wiltshire by A.P....
Saxon Sword’s Secrets
The Barrow Clump excavation on Salisbury Plain, has has shown the site was the focus of human activity for over five thousand years.
Originally a...
Where on Earth is Kent Jones!
Catch up with what he has been learning and find out how he locates archaeology in his latest post.
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A Mammoth Adventure
The find – an impressive section of mammoth tusk – was reported in 2006 through the Marine Aggregate Industry Protocol, which provides a safety...
Cirencester Cockerel inspires poem
As part of the current ‘Food for Thought’ exhibition at the Corinium Museum, poet Dan Simpson made a poem inspired by and honouring the...
Global warming, rising tides, a major gulf developing between Britain and...
Few travellers crossing the North Sea are aware that these grey northern waters cover a prehistoric landscape that once stretched without break between the...
Prehistoric elephants, Roman belts and medieval villages: ULAS 2017 review
As the year drew to an end, ULAS had time to reflect on a very busy 2017, and some of the discoveries made across...
![Steamship SS Mendi, which sank on 21 February 1917 with the loss of 30 British crew and 616 South Africans, mostly of the South African Native Labour Corps (SANLC). [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](http://www.bajrfed.co.uk/bajrpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/mend-324x160.jpg "We Die Like Brothers")
We Die Like Brothers
Most of the dead were men of the South African Native Labour Corps on their way to France to support Allied troops on the...
Dorchester Romans are international news
The WA sites include Alington Avenue, Greyhound Yard, Dorchester By-Pass, and Dorchester Hospital, the skeletal remains from some of which were analysed by Jacqueline...