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“In a churchyard on Boa Island, you can still look the old gods in the face. They watch you in silence. They want to speak to you of their power.”

Join Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney as he explores the islands of Lough Erne, Northern Ireland. He encounters an ancient and mysterious stone statue and imagines what the old gods in Ireland were like. The monastic round tower of Devenish Island is a reminder of those early Christian missionaries who, “startled the nature gods and put them to flight.”

This is an excerpt from BBC Northern Ireland programme Ulster in Focus: The Loughsiders.

Originally broadcast 14 June, 1972.

A metal detectorist has revealed his “quite extraordinary” discovery of a second Bronze Age hoard in the Scottish Borders.

Mariusz Stepien found his latest haul of 3,000-year-old treasure in 2022 at a spot seven miles from where he discovered the Peebles Hoard in 2020.

A metal detectorist found a gold ingot in a field in Leicestershire which could date back to the Bronze Age.

Steve McKnight – who has been scanning for objects in the ground for about 12 years – was taking part in an organised dig on 14 September 2025 in Market Bosworth when he struck gold.

Stones decorated with megalithic art were damaged in what authorities described as a significant heritage crime.

A huge new archaeological dig is set to begin at one of Britain’s most important Bronze Age sites.

A Bronze Age artefact found by an eight-year-old boy during a day out in the Lake District is to go on display.

In August 1966, a US astronomy professor shared his astonishing findings with the BBC. He believed that the Neolithic stone circle was built to predict eclipses.

More magic from Lego and various places in Orkney.

A late Bronze Age button has been discovered with a hoard of axe heads in a find that is exciting experts.

A mathematician who used geometry to study a prehistoric burial chamber on Guernsey said he thought the monument could also have been used as an ancient calendar.

Archaeologists have uncovered a “beautifully made” Iron Age burial site containing the skeleton of a woman at a quarry in Sutherland.

The stone-lined pit may have lain undisturbed at Evelix for about 2,000 years.

“This is the best site I’ve ever seen in my entire life – it’s fantastic you see the huge ebb and flow of peoples from the Neolithic period onwards,” says archaeologist Richard Mortimer.

He is working on a vast excavation ahead of the building of the Sizewell C nuclear power plant, near Leiston, Suffolk, where a “princely burial” was uncovered.

Tucked behind a hedge, alongside a quiet bungalow’s driveway, sits one of the Isle of Man’s oldest structures, The Cloven Stones, a Neolithic tomb believed to be around 5,000 years old.

An archaeological dig is hoping to uncover more secrets from a farming enclosure older than Stonehenge, which was first spotted from the sky as crop marks in the 1970s.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have discovered an underground “ancient circle” which may have been used for burial rituals hundreds of years ago on the Isle of Arran.

A geophysics survey has revealed traces of a stone or timber circle in Arran’s ancient Machrie Moor which could have come from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, according to a new report released by Historic Environment Scotland (HES).

Rare treasures found with a young Iron Age man buried in Alloa about 2,000 years ago are to go on show for the first time in a new exhibition.

Just hearing someone has been arrested.

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THE WHITE HORSE MUMMERS PRESENT

A Summer Solstice Special
The Ghosts of Midsummer Arise: A Merry Mayhem In Three Acts

June 21st 7.00 p.m The White Horse pub Chilham (Free)

ACT I  – Meet at the White Horse 7.00 p.m. (walk to Julliberries Grave @20 minutes)

ACT II – The Ghosts of Midsummer Arise (a performance at Julliberries Grave)

ACT III – Revelry, Music, Dance and More at the White Horse pub Chilham
Join Us and Join-Inn (fancy dress, instruments, loud singing, welcome)

The walk includes crossing a busy road and a short steep path –
for more details contact [email protected]

A flyer for this event can be found here: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MNjdAWVYySVrPCufyeDtzI88lj2LuKX4?usp=sharing

Bronze Age artefacts found in an ancient burial mound in Leeds offer a “fascinating” insight into how people were laid to rest, experts say.

Cremated remains and fragments of an urn were among items found during archaeological investigations on a housing project at Pitty Close Farm in Drighlington.

The unsolved mystery of how the altar stone of Stonehenge arrived in Wiltshire could finally be partly explained by new research.

The monolith is believed to have originated in the Orcadian Basin of north-east Scotland, but how it ended up in Salisbury remained unknown.

Three Bronze Age arm rings have been discovered by metal detectorists at a site where a new electricity substation could be built, with archaeologists describing the find as “spectacular”.

A council has agreed to oppose plans for a wind farm in the Lammermuir Hills near to where three Iron Age hillforts once stood.

A “hugely significant” collection of Iron Age coins and miniature weapons that was found by a local detectorist is to appear in a museum.

A museum has successfully secured the £150,000 it needs in order to keep a 3,000-year-old dress fastener.

The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery acquired the solid gold object after it was discovered in 2023 in Ellastone, Staffordshire, by a metal detectorist.

A council is being advised to oppose plans for a wind farm in the Lammermuir Hills due to concerns over its impact on the area where three Iron Age hillforts once stood.