Even better – as I will outline at the end of this selection – the majority are open to the public, offering unparalleled ...

Exploring landscapes of power in early medieval East Anglia Over the last two decades, evidence of a high-status early ...

The turning of the year is always a point to pause and reflect. For me, this issue marks a mindful milestone, as it is my ...

Below are some of the publications we feel most deserve to be recognised for their contribution to the field – the nominees ...

Below are the three individuals nominated for 2026’s ‘Archaeologist of the Year’, whose achievements reflect the diverse work ...

This has been another exceptional year for archaeological research. The following are some of the most exciting projects to ...

The Current Archaeology Awards celebrate the projects and publications that made the pages of the magazine over the past 12 months, and the people judged to have made outstanding contributions to ...

Rescue archaeology is carried out in areas threatened by human or natural agency. We’ve collated some of the best rescue projects that have been highlighted in Current Archaeology over the past year.

Salisbury Plain is renowned for its spectacular Neolithic monuments, but decades of research have found few traces of earlier activity in the Stonehenge landscape. Now the discovery of the plain’s ...

The Snettisham treasure was first discovered in 1948. The field was being ploughed deeper than usual, and in the course of ploughing the ploughman discovered an interesting lump of metal. He took it ...

In the winter of AD 872-873 a Viking army made camp at Torksey in Lincolnshire. Dawn Hadley and Julian D Richards are leading a new project to investigate life in those winter quarters, and to ...

It used to be thought that only high-class houses had survived from the Medieval period. Radiocarbon and tree-ring dating has now revealed that thousands of ordinary Medieval homes are still standing ...