The British archaeological discovery of the year must be the Staffordshire Hoard, which is a hoard of more than 1,500 Anglo-Saxon gold and silver items (tentatively dated to the 7th or 8th centuries) that were discovered on 5th July by a metal...

A new and improved version of BabelPad that supports Unicode 5.2 has just been released, and can be downloaded directly by clicking here (simply unzip the file BabelPad.exe and run it from wherever you like). BabelPad will run on Windows 2000, XP,...

It is not often that a new Ogham stone is discovered, so when last week someone asked me to take a look at a piece of slate with a possible Ogham inscription on it that they had just found, I was excited, but not overly hopeful that it would turn out...

(I suppose that this post should come at the end of what may turn into a series of posts surveying the Ogham stones of Britain and Ireland, but I feel like doing it now, so here it is.) Ogham stones occur throughout the areas of Britain that border...

In anticipation of next week's blog post, I thought it would be useful to present a brief survey of the known Ogham stone inscriptions in Cornwall and Devon. Although the large majority of Ogham stones are found in Ireland, a number of Ogham stone...