A Viking axe head found in a Gloucestershire village could be evidence of a battle more than 1,100 years ago, according to archaeologists. The wrought iron object, found in Slimbridge in 2008, has now been identified as being of Viking origin. Historians say a band of Vikings sailed up the River Severn and fought against [...]
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Viking axe head discovery is ‘evidence of battle’
Posted in Archaeologists, archaeology, british history, king alfred, sightseeing tours, viking on February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Stonehenge artists view West through Hardy’s eyes
Posted in countryside, dorset tours, events in wiltshire, histories, History, salisbury events, salisbury museum, sightseeing tours, Stonehenge, Stonehenge private tours, thomas hardy, wessex on January 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Intense and brooding images of Stonehenge and other prehistoric monuments in a new exhibition are taking visitors deep into the heart of Thomas Hardy’s ‘Wessex’. Archaeologists debate the purpose of Stonehenge, but for Hardy it was a haunting symbol of isolation and suffering. The exhibition by three artists at Salisbury Museum mirrors the Dorset author’s [...]
Stonehenge Winter Solstice Feast
Posted in Archaeologists, burial mounds, Druids, durrington walls, english culture, English Heritage, History, neolithic, prehistory, riverside project, sightseeing tours, Stonehenge, Stonehenge private tours, visit wiltshire on December 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A huge winter solstice feast might have taken place around Stonehenge some 4,500 years ago. Abundant cattle and pig bones recently unearthed a few miles from the megalithic site suggest that prehistoric people celebrated the connection between the stone circle and the sky with hundreds of roasts. According to initial research led by Mike Parker [...]
Archaeologists make new Stonehenge ‘sun worship’ find
Posted in Archaeologists, british history, prehistory, sightseeing tours, Stonehenge, Stonehenge at sunrise, stonehenge at sunset, stonehenge cusus, Stonehenge private tours, visit wiltshire, wessex on November 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Two previously undiscovered pits have been found at Stonehenge which point to it once being used as a place of sun worship before the stones were erected. The pits are positioned on celestial alignment at the site and may have contained stones, posts or fires to mark the rising and setting of the sun. An [...]
The votes are in: your favourite British building
Posted in architecture, countryside, durham cathedral, sightseeing, sightseeing tours, Stonehenge, world heritage on September 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The results of our readers’ vote for Britain’s best building are in. Did your favourite win? When we asked which British building you thought deserved to take the final place in our Britain’s best building series, we got a wonderful response and a vast range of suggestions from the very old Stonehenge to the not [...]
‘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 [...]
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 [...]
British Folklore – The Moonrakers, Wiltshire.
Posted in British Folklore, Devizes, England facts, english culture, moonraker, sightseeing tours, strange wiltshire, wessex, Wiltshire on July 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Stories of yokels getting the better of townies pepper British folklore – perhaps the best known being one reading of the Nottinghamshire legend The Wise Men of Gotham . Rivalling that tale is the Wiltshire story of The Moonrakers, so dear to the heart of the county that to this day anyone born in Wiltshire [...]
Glastonbury Legends and Myths – The legend of Joseph of Arimathea at Glastonbury, Somerset.
Posted in Avebury, british history, Challice Well Gardens, countryside, english culture, Glastonbury, Glastonbury Abbey, Glastonbury Tor, History, holy thorn, Isle of Avalon, King Arthur, prehistory, sightseeing tours, stone circle, Stonehenge, Stonehenge private tours, wessex, Wiltshire on July 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Legends of Glastonbury There are so many myths associated with Glastonbury that it is difficult to know where to begin to talk about them. There are two main streams of legend that surround Glastonbury, though they twine around each other to some degree. The two streams revolve around the romantic figures of Joseph of Arimathea [...]
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