10 Years of Thames’ Finds on Display

10 Years of Thames’ Finds on Display

 Wessex Archaeology has been working with DP World, above and below the water, for over a decade, in a partnership which has been praised for its ground-breaking approach to investigating and understanding the country’s long history with the River Thames. We have...
A Civil War Candlestick from Salisbury?

A Civil War Candlestick from Salisbury?

The site itself is enigmatic – it is rectangular in outline with ‘bastions’ at the corners, and looks just like a classic fort, except that it consists only of a shallow ditch, with no structural remains at all, and no internal features. Whatever it was, it was very...
A File in the Nail-stack

A File in the Nail-stack

The value of X-raying was demonstrated recently when a small iron file was identified among a batch of nearly 500 Roman nails recovered from a site in the south-east of England. The 104 mm long tool, which had closely set teeth and a tapered end, would have been used...
ADS Library: BETA version now online!

ADS Library: BETA version now online!

The ADS, Historic England and the Council for British Archaeology are pleased to announce the beta release of ADS Library. The ADS Library is the fusion of existing datasets. These include journal and series backruns archived with the ADS, the Library of unpublished...