A new study by archaeologists at Bournemouth University has revealed that bodies recovered from a "war-cemetery," previously attributed to the Roman Conquest of Britain at Maiden Castle Iron Age ...

The newly discovered information has archaeologists questioning decades of work. A new study published by archaeologists at Bournemouth University (published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology) has ...

Learn how archaeologists used radiocarbon dating to debunk one of the most defining moments in British history. A new study in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology has made the shocking discovery that ...

The east gate ‘war cemetery’ in 1937: general view from the south. Credit: Society of Antiquaries of London and Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society A new archaeological investigation ...

The Roman invasion of Dorset included 30 battles, the conquest of two great tribes and the capture of 20 fortresses.In Iron Age Dorset, a tribe called the Durotriges sited their capital at Maiden ...

It was written into the history books as one of the nation’s most dramatic and horrific battles. But the tale of a Roman assault on Dorset’s Maiden Castle in AD43 was invented by an archaeologist with ...

Two of the skeletons excavated by Mortimer Wheeler in the 1930s, dating from the 1st century AD. Both these individuals exhibit bladed weapon injuries, whilst one has a spear head lodged in his spine, ...

A new study in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology has made the shocking discovery that one of the most famous moments in British history never actually happened. The epic and brutal fight between a ...