Investigating prehistoric monuments in and around the Stonehenge World Heritage Site and their relationships to the heavens. Stonehenge is often described as mysterious and impossible to understand.

Browndown offers a rare insight into how soldiers learned to live and fight in trenches before leaving for the Western Front. Historic England’s Archaeological Investigation Team have recently ...

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places. The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most ...

Sites where stone tools were made and used in prehistory contain unique evidence but present special challenges, which are addressed in a new guidance document. It is, or at least it used to be, ...

The site at Hunt’s Green Farm contains evidence of an Iron Age boundary ditch called Grim’s Ditch, part of a larger monument that continues outside the site area. The ditch to the south-west (see ...

This site contains the remains of the world’s earliest round house engine shed. It was designed by Robert Stephenson, built in 1837 and demolished around 1852. The location was known from maps, but ...

Culverwell is an important Mesolithic site near Portland Bill, Dorset, dating from about 7,500–8,500 BP. The site was discovered in 1966 after ploughing uncovered large quantities of mollusc shells. A ...

A 17th–18th-century brick and tile kiln was identified and partly excavated during evaluation work (Horsley 2020), see Figure 1. It was located on the alignment of a new road being constructed as part ...

This should not cause surprise; the Roman frontier was a zone, not a line , and a road, the Maiden Way, ran from the north ...

A roundup of new additions to the Historic England Research Reports database from March 2024 to September 2024 arranged by ...