Jeffrey of Monmouth first wrote of Tintagel Castle as a potential birthplace of King Arthur. Historians Charles Thomas and David Williams discuss.
At Tintagel, on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall, there is a rugged promontory. This dramatic site has long been associated with the Dark Age warrior, King Arthur.
The tin ingots discovered in a sunken galley in Plymouth Sound take the historians on an ancient journey to Constantinople.
The tin that the divers found lay a few metres away from a beach which has yielded some intriguing remains. Coastal erosion has revealed hearths were meat had been cooked. Could these be connected to the tin trade?
Archaeologist Mark Whyman has made a stunning find in his home town of York. The post Roman pottery demonstrates civilisation continued.
Life in York did not come to a standstill in 410. Mark had found evidence for some kind of activity in the city after the Romans left. And he is not alone. All over the country, archaeologists are piecing together a picture of dark age Britain very different from the conventional story of collapse.
The Roman Shore Forts formed an essential border guard for the Roman occupation and Portchester Castle is a surviving relic of our history.
The name Saxon shore fort actually comes from a Roman military list. In the 16th century, this list was translated, by famous antiquarian William Camden. What the term Saxon refers to is unclear.
The archaeological dig at Lullingstone Roman Villa has unearthed new evidence of an early form of Christian worship called gnosticism.
But, the crumpled baptism tank I’d seen was just one of many Christian items which had been deliberately destroyed or buried in this area.
The English Language has its roots in German with a strong influence from the original Celtic language of the British Isles.
If you’re a Celt and you’re trying to learn old English, just like any second language, you’re going to make mistakes. If you go to France today you’re bound to make mistakes, mistakes which really show structure from your own language.
Dark Age Britain was too independent to bow to the Byzabtine Emperor Justinian rather, the enlightened Monks of Caldey Island would prevail.
Caldey was part of the early monastic movement which arrived in Britain, with the pottery, on boats from the Mediterranean.
Isotope Analysis is a new form of biological research developed by Dominic Powlesland using skeletal tooth enamel to trace populations.
There may have been no Anglo-Saxon invasion but, what there was, however, was a change in fashion. Clothes, pottery, weapons and burial practices underwent a dramatic change in the centuries after the Roman government collapsed.
The discovery of Fishbourne Palace rewrites our understanding of the Roman occupation of Britain in the time of Verica Rex.
Fishbourne Palace covers a larger area than Buckingham Palace. 160 stone columns support the roof which is constructed from 100 tonnes of imported Italian tiles. Corridors surround over 100 rooms, some of which are decorated with elaborate mosaics.
History did not explain the population change so a DNA Survey would be conducted to allow science the chance to offer an explanation.
At University College London professor of genetics Mark Thomas and his team have conducted a survey of the DNA in the British Isles.