Blood, faith and iron

I am delighted to announce that my book on early industrialisation in the Ironbridge Gorge has been published by Archaeopress . It examines...

Offa's Dyke seminar and excavations

Last month we ran a day school on behalf of the Offa's Dyke Collaboratory , an initiative which I wrote about earlier in the year . In c...

European Association of Archaeologists 2018

Well, another superb EAA conference - this time in Barcelona - which for me was characterised by two main strands of activity. The first, f...

Beacon Ring hillfort excavations

We have just finished a season of fieldwork at Beacon Ring , a hillfort which has been owned by the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust since 2...

A piece of paper in Munich (not that one)

It was a delightful honour to be able to represent CIfA at the annual conference of the  Deutschen Gesellschaft f�r Ur- und Fr�hgeschichte ...

Offa's Dyke: conservation conversations

The conservation of Offa's Dyke has been the focus of two events in recent weeks. Both were hosted by the Offa's Dyke Association  (...

Politics and heritage: recent developments in Wales

There have been a lot of changes to the Welsh system of protecting and managing archaeology and cultural heritage recently, mainly arising f...