The Contents Of These 400 Year Old ‘Face Jugs’ Is Actually Pretty Gross

When archaeologists opened these jars, they found them full of human hair and urine. Here’s why. Yes, this 400 year-old jug looks pretty jolly. Indeed, these Bartman Jugs would probably have originally contained beer…

Site Diary: The Archaeology Ambassadors Visit Iron Age Spain

Think of Spain and you’ll probably be thinking of rugged mountains, Moorish palaces, and coastlines filled with ex-pats. But head north, and you’ll find something quite different, something quite unique, and that’s a place…

Site Diary: Archaeology Ambassadors Visit An Iron Age ‘Factory’ On The Atlantic Coast of Spain

Plus-sized architecture, industry and trade with the Mediterranean… if you were to believe the Romans, you’d think the arrival of all this on Europe’s Atlantic coast was thanks to them. But meet the archaeologists…

Our ‘Jaw-Dropping’ Bronze Age Discovery Is In The Guardian!

This summer, hundreds of crowdfunders helped us carry out an excavation of a Bronze Age burial site near Morecambe Bay. It was the first major scientific excavation in the region of such a site…

Site Diary: We Found A Medieval Floor!

Site Diary: The Farmer’s Furrows