Near the northernmost part of England sits Northumberland, a rugged bit of landscape known for its sweeping moors, sparsely populated landscape and as the site of numerous battles. There, on the coast ...

Volunteers at Bamburgh Castle discovered the foundations of an ancient roundhouse. Photo by Owen Humphreys / PA Images via Getty Images Excavations at Bamburgh Castle, a medieval stronghold on the ...

Could this Anglo-Saxon cemetery, discovered in the shadow of Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland, contain the remains of the old ruling family of Bebbanburg? 91 individual skeletons were excavated at ...

Bamburgh is one of the most spectacular of England’s coastal castles, with a long and complex history. Some important early medieval archaeology survives below the Norman castle that we see today.