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A large cemetery containing the lavishly adorned remains of high-status individuals dating from around 2,000 years ago has been uncovered by Archaeology South-East (UCL Institute of Archaeology).

Two Iron Age gold coins have been recovered during a fresh excavation of the Great Baddow Hoard findspot.

Updates from Archaeology South-East's public engagement team, who have recently been working with new groups in London.

The UCL Institute of Archaeology has been ranked 3rd in the world in the QS World University Rankings by Subject for 2026.

Museum X and Archaeology South-East joined together in January for a sold-out afternoon of discovery, conversation and creative reflection at UCL Culture Lab’s Patterns exhibition.

The UCL Institute of Archaeology is pleased to announce the publication of the latest volume of Archaeology International, now available to read freely online as open access.

A free archaeological exhibition day on Saturday 21st February in Bexhill Drill Hall will explore the lives of World War One soldiers who trained at nearby Cooden Camp.

The UCL Institute of Archaeology is co-organiser of the Current Archaeology Live! 2026 event which will take place in London on 28 February.

The award winners were announced at a ceremony in the great hall of Queen’s University Belfast on the 28th November.

In the next in our series of fieldwork diaries, Solomon Whitehouse (recent undergraduate student, UCL Institute of Archaeology) shares his experience of fieldwork in Kyrgyzstan.

Archaeology South-East's monograph ‘The Honour and Safety of the Realm: The Elizabethan and later harbour works at Dover Western Docks, Kent’ is now available online to read and download for free.

As part of Black History Month we’re sharing an original spoken word piece by British-born Sierra Leonean rapper and storyteller Alim Kamara. It's part of a new exhibition at the UCL East Culture Lab.

UCL Institute of Archaeology staff, students, friends and colleagues will be saddened to hear of the death of Mike Corbishley earlier this month.

Excavations by ASE historic buildings archaeologist Dr Michael Shapland, who is the Cathedral Archaeologist, uncovered the burial only a few inches below the floor during planned building works.

The Placement Year at Archaeology South-East, part of the four year BA Archaeology course at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, has been shortlisted for an Archaeological Achievement Award.