An exciting new Bronze Age hoard discovered in west Wiltshire (near Stonehenge) has just gone on display at Salisbury Museum. It was found a month ago in a field near Tisbury by a metal detectorist. He reported the first object, a spearhead, to the Wiltshire Finds Liaison Officer. A team of archaeologists then excavated the remaining [...]
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Tisbury Bronze Age Hoard Goes on Show at Salisbury Museum .
Posted in archaeology, british history, prehistory, salisbury events, Salisbury Guided Tours, salisbury museum, sightseeing, Tisbuty hoard, visit wiltshire, wessex, Wiltshire on November 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
BST (British Stupid Time) Why change the clocks ?
Posted in british history, British Summer time, BST, England facts, english culture, Funny, History on October 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
British Summer Time ends: clocks go back – Why? The clocks will go back by one hour at 2.00 am on Sunday 30 October. At 2.00 am, the clocks will return to 1.00 am as British Summer Time ends for another year. British Summer Time British Summer Time (BST) starts each year on the [...]
Ancient trees: Britain’s oldest inhabitants
Posted in British Folklore, british history, countryside, England facts, english culture, History, Wiltshire on October 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
If you find yourself gasping, “Wow, that tree’s fatter than anything else like it around here!” the chances are you’ve probably found an ancient tree What is an ancient tree? The definition varies from species to species, so a silver birch may be ancient at 150 years old, while an oak of the same age is [...]
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 »
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 [...]
Little England.
Posted in battles, British Folklore, british history, english culture, histories, History on September 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Three very different national histories are marred by their refusal to admit neighbours into the narrative, writes David Cannadine from the Financial Times. “There are,” John Julius Norwich notes with pardonable exaggeration in his lively and engaging volume on the subject, “a thousand histories of England, ranging from the scholarly to the popular, the impartial [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A History of English Towns
Posted in british history, Celts, England facts, History, Romans, UK genealogy, wessex on August 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
CELTIC AND ROMAN TOWNS The Celts who lived in Britain before the Roman invasion of 43 AD could be said to have created the first towns. Celts in southern England lived in hill forts, which were quite large settlements. (Some probably had thousands of inhabitants). They were places of trade, where people bought and sold [...]
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