Mighty warhorses, as richly adorned and armoured as their knightly riders, are an immediately recognisable icon of the ...

My column this month is on one of the least-known ‘great sites’ of all: Offa’s Dyke, the linear earthwork that stretches ...

This month’s cover shows Aberlemno II, a 2.28m-tall Pictish cross slab in Angus. Thought to date to the 8th century, its ...

A specialist grant that helps volunteer and community groups date their finds is encouraging projects to apply to their 2020 funding round… ...

To avoid paying tax, in the 18th and 19th century, small-scale whisky-production went underground, moving to isolated bothies hidden in remote locations across Scotland. Derek Alexander and Daniel ...

Current Archaeology’s first formal visit to Tintagel was in 1998, covering the story of the site and the theories about what it could have been used for. Radford believed the site to be a monastery, ...

The spectacular scenery adorning this month’s cover features a Highland site known as ‘Calan’s Bothy’ – once home to an illicit whisky still. What has recent fieldwork revealed about this industry in ...

Prof Alice Roberts (winner of Book of the Year 2025) via video message, with archaeologist and educator Julian Richards on stage. [Photo credit: Adam Stanford, www.adam-stanford.co.uk] A vividly ...

A Professor who emphasises making archaeology accessible to all has taken home top honours at the prestigious Current Archaeology Awards, after being crowned Archaeologist of the Year for 2025. Joyce ...

This month’s cover shows Aberlemno II, a 2.28m-tall Pictish cross slab in Angus. Thought to date to the 8th century, its front depicts a large, elaborately decorated ring-headed cross, while the ...

Charlotte Frearson, Jennifer French, and Andrew Gardner discuss why any prospective undergraduate should give the discipline serious consideration.… ...