Excavation continues at the possible site of the Bray School on the Virginia campus of the College of William and Mary. The school was founded in 1760 for the education of African-American children. Archaeologists have uncovered a brick-lined well and evidence of a structure that may have been the school’s kitchen. Slate pencils and marbles have […]

Artist Katharine Morling is creating animal sculptures based upon the zoomorphic designs that decorate the Staffordshire Hoard. The seventh-century Anglo-Saxon weapons were discovered by a metal detector enthusiast in a farmer’s field in 2009. “I took the tiny images from the Hoard and transformed them into mythological god figures, brought to life in a kingdom of […]