Smithsonian Magazine

Archaeologists Find Both a Medieval Dungeon and Roman Burial Beneath a Market Square in England

Beneath a city square in the English city of Leicester, archaeologists have discovered a Roman infant burial, remnants of ...

Archaeologists Recruited a Group of Amateurs—and Uncovered a Collection of Roman Treasures

Local volunteers included schools, youth groups, and community organizations.
Archaeology

Bronze Age Wooden Tool Discovered in England

DORSET, ENGLAND—Dorset View reports that a nearly complete wooden spade was uncovered in a waterlogged area near Poole Harbor in southern England by researchers from Wessex Archaeology. “It’s made of ...
Yahoo

New England stone walls lie at the intersection of history, archaeology, ecology and geoscience, and deserve a science of their own

The abandoned fieldstone walls of New England are every bit as iconic to the region as lobster pots, town greens, sap buckets and fall foliage. They seem to be everywhere – a latticework of dry, ...
Greek Reporter

Archaeologists Reveal Unprecedented Roman Finds in England’s Bremenium Fort

Archaeologists uncovered rare Roman artifacts at Bremenium Fort, England, revealing how soldiers lived on Rome’s northern ...
Archaeology

Possible Pub Site Found in England

DOVER, ENGLAND—According to a BBC News report, a pit containing waste materials perhaps left behind by a pub was unearthed during an investigation conducted ahead of a construction project in ...
Live Science

Metal detectorists unearth dazzling Anglo-Saxon gold-and-garnet raven head and ring: 'It's unbelievable — I'm a bit emotional'

While searching a field in southwest England, metal detectorists stumbled on the "find of a lifetime": two gold-and-garnet objects dating to around 1,400 years ago. Paul Gould, a new detectorist with ...
Keene State College

The Shock of Colonialism: Archaeology in a New England Frontier

In this talk based on her recent book, The Shock of Colonialism in New England: Fragments from a Frontier, archaeologist Dr. Meghan C. L. Howey shares her research on the seventeenth-century colonial ...