Presenters Helen Skelton and Alex Langlands explore some of the most fascinating periods of British history through current archaeological excavations around the country. As the author says, it's a past that's not a long parade of us in funny costumes—a fascinating 5-star read. Helen and Alex head to Sherwood Forest, home to Robin Hood, an outlaw who may or may not have been real.

Pitts is a great communicator and deals effectively with some complex excavations, technical information, and wider implications.She contributed in her own small way to saving the Staffordshire Hoard for the nation and blogs at www. Mind you, we should be concerned that 500 000km of underground assets remain unregistered, particularly when the infrastructure boom – so neatly described in this Report – is now breaking over us. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

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This seemed really logical to me, and worked really well, and the author explains it using the way archaeologists dig down through layers in trenches from newer to older. Absolutely brilliant - some of my favourite sites are mentioned, with the latest developments - the London Mithraeum, Star Carr, Stonehenge, and others I was less familiar with. Mike Pitts reviews ten significant archaeological sites in Britain, considering the latest (as of 2019) analyses of the artifacts and remains found. Pitts pays tribute to the “meticulous and wise” Roger Jacobi here who put together scattered finds from a site that had been excavated and carved out for well over a hundred years. Archaeology is a complex jigsaw puzzle, drawing together everything from skeletons to swords, temples to treasure.