Congratulations @peelbacklayers for your special commendation at last nights East Midlands Heritage Awards. pic.twitter.com/A9Ek3CxqoN —...

The Vikings were in the East Midlands right? But you’d like to know more? Well over the summer we heard that a project was launched which...

Staffordshire History Day 2017 It seems that most weeks there’s a conference, meeting or seminar I’d like to go to. Why? Well they are...

A typical motte and bailey castle. The motte is the raised mound and the bailey is the protected area below. Last weekend saw Catherine...

Excavating Jericho The story is, of course, much longer than just putting an exhibition together. There are a number of strands that come...

Large upright stones (orthostats) forming part of a linear feature at Gardom’s edge near Baslow. Yes, it’s that time of year again...

Now that the summer is just a distant memory many people think that archaeologists move indoors and do other things. Well, in part they...

Back in December I visited the excavations at a site called Must Farm near Peterborough. It is a fantastically preserved Bronze Age house...

Assembling for the day! A full house anticipated. Saturday 9th January saw the 25th Derbyshire Archaeology Day unfurl its wings at its...

Catherine and I recently had the chance to visit the British Museum to catch two of their featured exhibitions – The Celts: Art &...

Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS), which is a Department of Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) funded project that encourages the voluntary...

Back in June we visited Anglesey with our children to see some of the archaeology of the island. Our weekend was packed full of...

It’s about time we had more news from Staffordshire. So, first things first – over 50 skeletons have been found on the site of a medieval...

Well, while schools are getting settled in and universities are gearing up to the new academic year, here are a few items from the world...

As if this summer hadn’t given us enough to think about with the excavations we reported on at Marden, Avebury and Dorstone Hill in our...

Of course, it’s that time of year when parents, who may be teachers and vice versa, are looking for things to do with bored, restless and...

The busy summer of activity continues, and while some projects such as those at Dorstone, Marden and the Ardnamurchan Transitions Project...

The summer of fantastic excavations on some of the most interesting sites from British Prehistory continues and now you can see some of...

Things are going nicely on top of Dorstone Hill. The second week of the excavation has revealed more of the structure and is looking...

Hello again! Now, as I blogged briefly the other day, a team from the University of Manchester led by our friend Prof Julian Thomas, has...