22nd July 2022:
This week saw the launch of Fromelles: Naming the Dead, the Scientists’ Story, published by Big Sky Publishing. The book tells the story of the excavation and identification of Australian soldiers ...
1st July 2022:
Registration is open for Oxford Archaeology's research webinar on early medieval cemeteries in south-eastern and north-western England, which will be held on Thursday 7th July at 4.30-6.30pmThe webinar will focus ...
16th June 2022:
Oxford Archaeology has been awarded a prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship research grant for a project entitled ‘Rewilding’ later prehistory: Bronze and Iron Age ecologies from the perspective of the wild ...
14th June 2022:
A hoard of palstave axeheads dating to the Bronze Age was found during a Jubilee weekend event organised by the Metal Detectives Group. A few days later, OA was on hand ...
28th April 2022:
Accidents, violence, gunshot wounds, amputations and disease: the brutal reality of the lives and deaths of 400 mainly local Oxfordshire people in the 18th and 19th centuries is outlined in a ...
20 April 2022
Oxford Archaeology North is proud to announce the release of a new monograph: The early medieval monastic site at Dacre, Cumbria!Dacre is rare in having documentary evidence for an ...
6th March 2022:
OA East recently completed an excavation in Essex which has revealed the remains of a military barracks occupied during the Napoleonic Wars, a period vividly brought to life in Bernard Cornwell’s fictional ...
1st March 2022:
OA East’s excavation of a Romano-Celtic temple-mausoleum near Corby has won Current Archaeology’s prestigious Rescue Project of the Year award for 2022.Oxford Archaeology East uncovered a densely populated Late Romano-British ...
24th February 2022:
Having uncovered Oxford University’s ‘lost college’, OA South think they have now discovered evidence of a 4,000 year old prehistoric burial mound beneath it.A fragment of skull and part of a ...
