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Phil Harding standing in front of the trilithon at Stonehenge

Discovery led by Phil Harding reveals 5,000-year-old ‘prototype’ for Stonehenge solar alignment

Radiocarbon dated to around 5,000 years ago, the discovery reveals evidence for the earliest known alignment with the solstice in the Stonehenge landscape.
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Drone used by archaeologists to record well at Sheffield Castle

Archaeologists use drone to film inside medieval well at Sheffield Castle

Archaeologists from Wessex Archaeology, working alongside FlyThru, have surveyed a medieval well within the walls of Sheffield Castle.
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archeological survey expert undertakes drone survey of church, standing in churchyard

Archaeologists and community record 600-year-old church in Happisburgh, Norfolk, before it’s lost to the sea

Archaeologist Arthur Hollindrake is crouched next to the trackway.

6,000-year-old Prehistoric Trackway Discovered in Somerset
Mapping the Maritime History of the Firth of Forth: Pittiwee Harbour

Mapping the Maritime History of the Firth of Forth

A field archaeologist holds up a black pottery sherd to the camera.

Lost Anglo Saxon Village and Stone Age Finds Uncovered on East Anglia TWO
Tackling the skills shortage with Historic England’s Archaeology Mentoring Partnerships Programme, Jasmine assesses pottery at desk

Tackling the skills shortage with Historic England’s Archaeology Mentoring Partnerships Programme

A child using a microscope, they are looking at organic matter preserved between two glass slides

A Positive Reaction: How Archaeology is Inspiring the Next Generation of Scientists
A historic engraving of the siege on Quebec in the late 1770s, courtesy of the National Army Museum, London.

Scientific analysis and community led historical research leads to identification of 250 year old Sanday wreck
Richard O'Neill on HS2 site wearing a green hard hat and smiling

In memory of Richard O’Neill
A number of books selected by our staff for World Book Day

World Book Day 2025 - Book Recommendations
A field archaeologist can be seen on our Sheffield Castle next to the remains of the civil war stakes.

Team excavating Sheffield Castle unearth the first surviving examples of 17th-century Civil War abatis in castle moat