Archaeologists have found the first intact Viking boat burial site in the UK. The 5m-long grave contained the remains of a high-status Viking who was buried with an axe, sword, spear and bronze ring-pin. The 1,000-year-old find, on the remote Ardnamurchan Peninsula, in the Highlands, was made by Ardnamurchan Transitions Project, a team led by [...]
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Intact Viking burial site found in UK
Posted in Archaeologists, archaeology, british history, burial mounds, English Heritage, History, viking on October 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Mesolithic Discovery Could Alter Our Understanding of Stonehenge
Posted in Archaeologists, archaeology, History, neolithic, salisbury museum, stone circle, Stonehenge, Stonehenge private tours, wessex, Wiltshire, world heritage on October 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A pair of carved stone ducks unearthed at Vespasian’s Camp near Stonehenge are believed to be the oldest known figurines found in the UK, and are amongst other findings that suggest the sacred site was in use several thousand years before the megalith itself was constructed. Led by archeologist David Jacques at The Open University, [...]
‘Colossal fossil’ found at Cotswold Water Park
Posted in Archaeologists, archaeology, cotswolds tours, countryside, England facts, History, sightseeing tours, Wiltshire on September 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Two children have found “rare” specimens of a fossilised sea creature at the Cotswold Water Park. Emily Baldry, five, from Chippenham, discovered the Rieneckia ammonite during a fossil hunt organised by the Cotswold Water Park Society on Sunday. Hugo Ashley, from Poulton, and his grandfather also found an ammonite cadoceras, and another Rieneckia ammonite. A [...]
Executed Iron Age bodies from Roman battle found in pit on Olympic transport route
Posted in Archaeologists, archaeology, british history, dorset tours, Romans, wessex, weymouth olympics, weymouth tours on September 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A 2,000-year-old mass grave full of dismembered bodies and skulls has been discovered at an ancient burial site being dug up to create a road for the 2012 Olympics. Archaeologists excavating the Weymouth Relief Road, on Ridgeway Hill near Weymouth, believe the pit of corpses comprises Iron Age war casualties massacred by the Roman Army. [...]
Somerset’s Ham Hill iron age fort excavation under way
Posted in Archaeologists, archaeology, british history, burial mounds, countryside, Glastonbury, hill fort, History, neolithic, prehistory on September 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A major excavation is under way to explore the unclear history of Britain’s largest Iron Age hill fort. The purpose of the Ham Hill site in Somerset is not known but researchers are now hoping to gain a deeper insight into life 2,000 years ago. A joint team from the universities of Cambridge and Cardiff [...]
England’s western-most Roman town uncovered
Posted in Archaeologists, archaeology, countryside, dorset tours, History, Romans, wessex on September 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A chance discovery of coins has led to the bigger find of a Roman town, further west than it was previously thought Romans had settled in England. The town was found under fields a number of miles west of Exeter, Devon. Nearly 100 Roman coins were initially uncovered there by two amateur archaeological enthusiasts. It [...]
King Arthur’s round table may have been found by archaeologists in Scotland
Posted in Archaeologists, British Folklore, british history, Celts, english culture, Glastonbury, Glastonbury Abbey, Glastonbury Tor, King Arthur, sightseeing tours, wessex, Wiltshire on August 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Archaeologists searching for King Arthur’s round table have found a “circular feature” beneath the historic King’s Knot in Stirling. The King’s Knot, a geometrical earthwork in the former royal gardens below Stirling Castle, has been shrouded in mystery for hundreds of years. Though the Knot as it appears today dates from the 1620s, its flat-topped [...]
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