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Volunteers Unearth Rare Roman Terracotta Head at Magna Fort
A routine excavation along the northern defences of Magna Roman Fort has produced an unexpected and unusually intimate discovery — a small terracotta head, recovered not by a senior specialist, but by two volunteers working side by side in the trench. Rinske de Kok and Hilda Gribbin were carefully clearing soil when the fired clay…
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Bronze Age Farmers Reached England’s Cheviot Hills Earlier Than Thought
High in the rolling uplands of northern England, archaeologists have uncovered rare and remarkably complete evidence of Bronze Age life—evidence that is now reshaping how early settlement and farming in the Cheviot Hills are understood. Excavations at Harden Quarry, within Northumberland National Park, have revealed a hilltop landscape where people lived, farmed, and buried their…