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Cambridgeshire

Bronze Age Must Farm Site near Peteborough - Site Update

Nice update and article with some cracking photos of some of the finds

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/04/2012/must-farm-bronze-age-site-the-finds

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Posted by mascot
5th April 2012ce

A man from Somerset is to appear in court charged with damaging a prehistoric monument near Wells.

Damage was done to a section of the Priddy Circles, which is made up of four large Neolithic circular henges, at some point in May or June last year.

English Heritage said it is a criminal offence to intentionally or recklessly destroy or damage a scheduled monument without lawful excuse.

The man is due at South Somerset and Mendip Magistrates' Court on 19 April.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-17614600

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Posted by Mustard
4th April 2012ce

Stonehenge and its Environs

Amesbury Museum set to open this weekend

Writing in The Salisbury Journal yesterday Morwenna Blake reports that -

"A NEW museum in Amesbury will be opening its doors this weekend with an exhibition about the town during the Mesolithic era. Amesbury, 3,000 years before Stonehenge will be the first exhibition to be held at the town council’s museum at the Melor Hall, which it bought for the purpose last month. Town mayor Andy Rhind-Tutt, who has launched a project to pull the community together under the banner of Amesbury 2012, said: “I am delighted that we have been able to complete on the purchase of the Melor Hall and put on this first exhibition for Amesbury.

"Over the Easter weekend there will be presentations at the hall each day, with visiting archaeologists including Professor Tim Darvill from Bournemouth University and Julian Richards of the BBC’s Meet the Ancestor."

Full article here - http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/9628296.Amesbury_museum_set_to_open_this_weekend/

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Posted by The Heritage Trust
4th April 2012ce

Wiltshire Heritage Museum awarded £370,000 for new Prehistoric Galleries

“The Wiltshire Heritage Museum has been awarded £370,000 by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to support plans to create a new gallery focusing on their outstanding Bronze Age archaeological collections. This will tell the story of the people who built and used the world renowned monuments of Stonehenge and Avebury. The new Prehistoric Galleries will provide an opportunity to display for the first time in generations the unique gold and amber finds from Wiltshire that date back to the Bronze Age, over 4,000 years ago. This was a time of shaman and priests, learning and culture and contacts across Europe. The Museum will be able to build on its existing learning and outreach programme, and inspire local people and visitors to become engaged and informed about the prehistoric landscapes of Wiltshire.

“The story to be told at the Museum forms part of an integrated approach to the interpretation of Stonehenge. The Stonehenge Museums Partnership links the Museum with new galleries being developed at the Stonehenge Visitor Centre by English Heritage and new galleries being planned at the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum. English Heritage is supporting the project with a major grant to the Museum. Wiltshire Council have also helped behind the scenes.”

Further information at http://www.wiltshireheritage.org.uk/news/index.php?Action=8&id=150&page=0 See also a lunchtime talk about the Project by David Dawson, Director, Wiltshire Heritage Museum on Thursday, 12 April 2012 at http://www.wiltshireheritage.org.uk/events/index.php?Action=2&thID=739&prev=1

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Posted by The Heritage Trust
29th March 2012ce

Gardoms Standing Stone (Standing Stone / Menhir)

Evidence stacks up that Gardom’s Edge monolith is astronomically aligned

Researchers at the Nottingham Trent University have gathered new evidence that a 4000-year-old monolith was aligned to be an astronomical marker. The 2.2 metre high monument, located in the Peak District National Park, has a striking, right-angled triangular shape that slants up towards geographic south. The orientation and inclination of the slope is aligned to the altitude of the Sun at mid-summer.

http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=118759&CultureCode=en

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Posted by Adam L
29th March 2012ce

Isle of Skye

Skye Cave Find Western Europe's 'earliest string instrument'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-17537147

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Posted by drewbhoy
29th March 2012ce

Pembrokeshire (County)

Rock Art Field School in Pembrokeshire

The Welsh Rock Art Association are holding a field school in Preseli Pembrokeshire in Sept to Oct 2012.

Quite expensive, but thought I'd add it here

http://www.rock-art-in-wales.co.uk/top/events.html

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Posted by blossom
27th March 2012ce

Roddenbury Hill (Hillfort)

Wiltshire hillfort to undergo major repairs

Roddenbury hillfort to undergo major work to repair damage caused by off-road biking.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-17515415

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Posted by tjj
26th March 2012ce

Östergötland County (E)

Skulls On Stakes In Sweden Date To Mesolithic

Archaeological excavations in 2009-2011 at Kanaljorden in the town of Motala, Ostergotland in Central Sweden unearthed a great Mesolithic site with ceremonial depositions of human crania in a former lake.

More info :

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2012/skulls-on-stakes-in-sweden-date-to-the-mesolithic

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Posted by drewbhoy
24th March 2012ce