From lost silver coins to fossilised faeces, medieval cesspits have become some of the richest archives of everyday life in ...

Medieval castles solved sanitation with stone shafts, ammonia fumigated wardrobes, and hired specialists to empty the pits at night. The engineering was smarter than it sounds, and sometimes deadlier ...

A medieval toilet and a jet die used to predict the future were some of the findings that could help build a picture of everyday life at a medieval bishop's palace. Archaeologists at Auckland Castle ...

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One of King Harold's manors appears twice in the famous Bayeux Tapestry, but only 948 years later have researchers finally identified the building's remains. Reading time 2 minutes Dating back over ...

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