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    Roman Baths, Bath - The official site provides a guide to Roman Britain, the thermal springs at Bath, an online virtual tour and information for visitors.

    Kilmartin House Museum - Archaeology museum on the West Coast of Scotland. An interactive map leads to photographs, description and bibliography for 150 sites scattered over the rich archaeological landscape of the Kilmartin Valley. Also feature on ancient music.

    Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology - Attached to the University of Oxford. Antiquities collections range from Palaeolithic to Victorian, from Egypt to Britain. Exhibitions, publications, news.

    The Mary Rose - Raised from the sea and on display at Portsmouth, this Tudor warship made waves in nautical archaeology. Detailed, scholarly history, photographs, description, visitor information.

    Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle upon Tyne - Imaginative on-line galleries (with sound and video) present the region's archeology and history: Stone-Age hunter gatherers, temple to the god Mithras, Hadrian's Wall, object of the month from an outstanding collection.

    British Museum: Celtic and Roman Britain - The finest treasures from Roman Britain are in the new Weston Gallery, while other new galleries display finds from Later Bronze Age and Celtic Europe.

    Navan Centre, Armagh - Dynamic and interactive audiovisual displays aim to bring to life the monument of Navan Fort, setting for 'The Ulster Cycle' of Irish myths.

    Romans in Scotland - Online version of an exhibition at the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow. Standard or QuickTime-enhanced versions offered.

    The Roman Painted House at Dover, England - Roman archaeological site discovered in 1970 by the Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit in Dover, and open to the public as a museum.

    Pitt Rivers Museum - At the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography in Oxford houses archaeological and ethnographic objects from all parts of the world. History and collections, visitor information.

    Flag Fen - John Byland provides a history and description of one of the most important Bronze age sites in Europe, with visitor information and his own professional photographs.

    Butser Ancient Farm - Replica of an Iron Age farm circa 300 BC, with buildings, animals and crops. Both a museum and an open-air laboratory for research into the Iron Age and Roman periods. Photos, information for visitors and schools.

    Old Fulling Mill Museum of Archaeology - The former mill houses the archaeological collections of Durham University. Photographs, history, exhibitions, visitor information.

    Archaeolink Prehistory Park, Aberdeenshire - Aims to present prehistory through a mixture of reconstructions, actual sites and an indoor centre: the archaeodome.

    Jorvik Viking Centre - Built on the site where the York Archaeological Trust found the amazingly well-preserved remains of part of Viking Jorvik (York). A massive range of evidence was recovered and has been used to recreate every last aspect of everyday life.

    Scottish Crannog Centre - A reconstruction of a lochside dwelling over 2,500 years old was built by the Scottish Trust for Underwater Archaeology at Loch Tay, Perthshire. Photographs and visitor information. 3D virtual crannog requires VRML2 (free download available.)

    Flag Fen - At Easter and in the Summer archaeologists can be seen at work excavating this unique site, where waterlogging has preserved evidence of a prehistoric way of life. Iron Age and Bronze Age Roundhouses have been reconstructed. Rare breed animals. Visitor information from this official site.

    Museum of the Iron Age - Uses reconstructions and displays of finds to tell the story of Danebury, the Iron Age hill fort excavated by Professor Barry Cunliffe and his team. Information for schools and visitors.

    Vindolanda - Roman fort and settlement by Hadrian's Wall, where rare ink on wood letters were discovered. Visitor information, excavation news. Online shopping: books, reproduction Roman jewellery, weapons, figures, games.

    Corinium Museum - The museum is noted for its imaginative displays of Roman Cirencester, so we might expect this witty shockwave mosaic design. Virtual gallery, news, events, education, visitor information.

    Marischal Museum - University of Aberdeen's collection of Scottish archaeology and folk life, foreign ethnography, Egyptian antiquities, numismatics and militaria. Location plan, exhibitions, services, conservation, educational resources.

    Creswell Crags Museum and Education Centre - At the east end of a gorge honeycombed with caves in which Ice Age hunters lived. An exhibition "The Age of Ice" tells the story of human and animal survival in the harsh climate of the last Ice Age.

    Archaeology Museum, University of Liverpool - The School of Archaeology, Classics and Oriental Studies houses a large Egyptian collection and objects from listed Near Eastern, Classical and British sites. Visitor information.

    Trimontium Exhibition - Permanent exhibition at the Ormiston Institute, Melrose, Scotland on the history of the Roman fort of Trimontium at Newstead. Description and visitor information provided by the Trimontium Trust.


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