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County Clare

6,000 year old Tsunami in Ireland?


Archeologists have uncovered evidence of pre-farming people living in the Burren more than 6,000 years ago — one of the oldest habitations ever unearthed in Ireland.

Radiocarbon dating of a shellfish midden on Fanore Beach in north Clare have revealed it to be at least 6,000 years old — hundreds of years older than the nearby Poulnabrone dolmen........

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/6000-year-old-settlement-poses-tsunami-mystery-193230.html
Posted 10 May 12ce  |  Comments (1)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

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
Posted 05 Apr 12ce  |  Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Newgrange (Passage Grave)

Search for 2nd Passage at Newgrange


Newgrange may have a second passage, and it too could be aligned with a solstice event.

Check out link below for more info:
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/search-on-for-a-second-passage-in-newgrange-2908492.html
Posted 19 Oct 11ce  |  Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Spain (Country)

Plans to open rock art caves at Altamira to the public?


Article at New Scientist covers the potential risk to the rock art paintings here if the caves are opened to the public to help local tourism.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21020-ancient-cave-paintings-threatened-by-tourist-plans.html
Posted 07 Oct 11ce  |  Comments (1)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Lincolnshire and Humberside

2,000 year old salting site found at Willow Tree Fen


BBC report on a dig at Willow Tree Fen, near Bourne in Lincolnshire.

Nice video and more details at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-15168543

Mac
Posted 05 Oct 11ce  |  Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Forteviot (Henge)

Forteviot site - seat of a Celtic Cheiftan?


Very good article from the local paper on the dig at Forteviot.

http://www.thecourier.co.uk/Community/Heritage-and-History/article/16972/forteviot-dig-uncovering-new-story-of-scotland-s-past.html
Posted 05 Sep 11ce  |  Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Berkshire

Planned Iron Age town near Reading - BBC report


More "news teasers" from the BBC for Digging for Britain - but looks like the series will be worth watching.

This one covers a planned Iron Age settlement near Reading.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14555449
Posted 19 Aug 11ce  |  Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Beccles Causeway

BBC report on new Causeway near the Beccles Iron Age Causeway


"The site, excavated in June, may have been part of a route across the River Waveney and surrounding wetland at Geldeston in Norfolk..."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14503302
Posted 16 Aug 11ce  |  Comments (3)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

News

Bright coloured decorations found on Iron Age interior walls


Archaeologists in Saxony Anhalt have discovered a 2,600 year old wall painted in bright patterns. It reveals that Iron Age houses were not the drab constructions they were once thought to be.

Full details - with photo at:

http://www.archaeologydaily.com/news/201108117054/Iron-Age-people-gave-interiors-of-dwellings-a-decorative-streak.html
Posted 12 Aug 11ce  |  Comments (2)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Highland (Mainland)

Human remains found at Caithness Iron Age broch site


BBC News report of this find at Thrumster, near Wick.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-14154062
Posted 15 Jul 11ce  |  Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

News

Prehistoric islands built up from middens?


I know it's way out of the normal geographical focus of TMA but there's an interesting article on how Pre-historic midden dumps may have grown to become larger "islands" in the Florida everglades.

I wonder if they will find evidence of "Crannogs" as they dig down more?
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/03/prehistoric-garbage-piles-may-ha.html?ref=hp
Posted 24 Mar 11ce  |  Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Marden Henge (and Hatfield Barrow)

Marden Henge excavation uncovers 4,500yo "Ceremonial Building"


Article on the dig here at
http://www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/03/2011/marden-henge-excavations-opens-window-on-neolithic-ritual
Posted 14 Mar 11ce  |  Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Oxfordshire

Complete Neolithic Pot found in Didcot


Archaeologists working on a housing development in Oxfordshire claim to have found one of the oldest complete pots in the country (5,500 years old).

Nice photo at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-12698321
Posted 11 Mar 11ce  |  Comments (1)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Nottinghamshire

Museum offers public chance to handle prehistoric axes


The Nottinghamshire public are being offered a rare opportunity to handle a 75,000-year-old axe and other ancient artefacts at a local museum.

The University of Nottingham Museum of Archaeology is putting on a Prehistory Day on 23 February 2011, in conjunction with the BBC's Hands On History.

Full details at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/nottingham/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_9398000/9398611.stm
Posted 22 Feb 11ce  |  Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

News

Researchers Map Out Ice Sheets Shrinking During Ice Age


A set of maps created by the University of Sheffield have illustrated, for the first time, how our last British ice sheet shrunk during the Ice Age.


Link below with some graphics
http://www.archnews.co.uk/featured/5322-researchers-map-out-ice-sheets-shrinking-during-ice-age.html

Sheffield Uni press release at:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/mediacentre/2011/1842-ice-sheet-age-melt-maps.html

More details and graphics at:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-02-ice-sheets-age.html
Posted 22 Feb 11ce  |  Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Norway (Country)

New rock art finds in Norway


Looks a lot different from UK rock art of the same period but interesting to compare these finds with what we see when out and about.

Given the site of these finds (west coast of Norway) and the period (late Iron Age) I can't believe there wasn't some form of cultural exchange across the North Sea to Shetland/Orkney?

http://www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/02/2011/norways-secret-petroglyphs
Posted 08 Feb 11ce  |  Comments (6)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

News

Aboriginal Sundial Pre-Dates Stonehenge


Interesting news article on research from Oz on local "sundial" that pre-dates stonehenge.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/sci-tech/ancient-aboriginal-eyes-were-on-the-skies/story-fn5fsgyc-1226000523978

More information on the site here:

http://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/AboriginalAstronomy/Examples/WurdiYouang.htm
Posted 07 Feb 11ce  |  Comments (4)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Stonehenge and its Environs

English Heritage photo rights trawl getting wider publicity


I know this has been covered before and affects wider than Stonehenge but it's interesting to see that EH's approach to photo rights is getting wider exposure (pun intended).

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101020/04044411496/english-heritage-organization-claiming-it-holds-effective-copyright-on-any-and-all-photos-of-stonehenge.shtml

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/10/21/0019257/All-Your-Stonehenge-Photos-Are-Belong-To-England
Posted 21 Oct 10ce  |  Comments (1)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

News

"Out of Africa" date being revised from stone tool finds?


BBC carrying news item on new stone tool finds that potentially point to an earlier date for the spread of human ancestors from Africa.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11327442
Posted 20 Sep 10ce  |  Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Australian Rock Art may be 40,000 years old


Interesting article at link below - "An Australian Aboriginal rock art may depict a giant bird that is thought to have become extinct some 40,000 years ago, thereby making it the oldest rock painting on the island continent. "

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2010/05/australian_aboriginal_rock_art.php
Posted 31 May 10ce  |  Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink
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Based in Cheshire but spend a lot of time in Northumberland I've always been interested in things Iron Age and earlier.

I now have the time to combine this interest with walking and taking photos so I hope to add content where I can.

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