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A city’s museum has received £250,000 of National Lottery funding to celebrate Bronze Age archaeology uncovered 10 years ago.

A reconstruction of a Bronze Age coracle has been completed 50 years after the prehistoric boat was discovered buried in Fife.

A programme of events to celebrate Julliberrie’s Grave has been running since February 2025 at the White Horse pub in Chilham, Kent. Here below are details of the next sessions, with potentially more to follow and the possibility of a future expansion to encompass some other sites in the Stour Valley. For more info email [email protected]

Sunday 2nd November 6.30pm at the White Horse pub, Chilham
“It’s What We Do – Part 1”: Rituals and Practices of the Shorter Sun, An Illustrated talk and Q and A by Jake Weekes and Bryan Hawkins
Who were the people of Jullieberries Grave and The Stour Valley 5,000 years ago?
What links between ourselves and the people of Jullieberries Grave might a study of prehistoric communities and their ritual and social practices reveal?
What can study of Ancient Languages, Folklore, Myth and Ritual tell us about our ancestors and ourselves and connections that have existed between us across thousands of years?

Sunday 9th November 6.30pm at the White Horse pub, Chilham
“It’s What We Do – Part 2”: Rituals and Practices of the Shorter Sun, An Illustrated talk and Q and A by Bryan Hawkins and Jake Weekes

Sunday 16th November 6.30pm at the White Horse pub, Chilham
Music, Song and Seasonal Words at The White Horse led by Bryan Hawkins, Jake Weekes et al.
“Samhain, All Saints and Sinners” – Singalong
Open Mike for Music, Songs, Readings, Minstrelry, Entertainments, Oddities and Amusements
Come Along, Dress Up, Join In – Weird and Spectacular Costumes and Comeliness, Scariness and Elegance of Dress Encouraged.

Sunday 30th November 6.30pm at the White Horse pub, Chilham
‘The Outer Dark and The White Horse‘ led by Bryan Hawkins, Jake Weekes et al.
Mummery and Magic at The White Horse: An Illustrated Talk, Readings and Discussion and An Entertaining Introduction to: ‘The White Horse and The Outer Dark’ Mummers Play
(Rehearsals and Creativity will follow at 7.00pm on Mondays – 1st, 8th and 15th of December)
ALL AND EVERYONE VERY EXTREMELY and VERY MERRILY WELCOME

Friday 5th December 6.30pm at the White Horse pub, Chilham
A Winter Full Moon Walk to Julliberrie’s Grave led by Dr. John Grigsby, Bryan Hawkins and Jake Weekes
Depart from and return to the White Horse pub, Chilham. Warm clothes suggested [an alternative event will occur at the pub if shelter is needed].

Sunday 28th December at the White Horse pub, Chilham
A MARVELLOUS CELEBRATORY TURNING OF THE YEAR
7.30pm THE WHITE HORSE MUMMERS perform ‘THE WHITE HORSE AND THE OUTER DARK’
ALL WELCOME – Come INN and JOIN INN with the mystery, fun, mayhem, mummery and guising!!!!

Archaeologists say a hilltop settlement near Perth thrived during the Iron Age before mysteriously fading away.

Archaeologists searching for the remains of a 400-year-old castle have unexpectedly found evidence of an 8,000-year-old settlement.

The team from Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) was hoping to find the ruins of Derrygonnelly Castle in County Fermanagh, but they also discovered artefacts dating back to the Mesolithic period.

Prof Eileen Murphy of the Centre of Community Archaeology at QUB said the find was “mind-blowing”.

“With archaeology you never know what you’re going to find. We’ve actually been able to push the date of this site back from the 400 years we were looking for to about 8,000 or 9,000 years ago, to the time of Ireland’s first settlers in the early Mesolithic.”

A plan to recreate an Iron Age broch in Caithness has moved a step forward after the scheme was granted planning permission.

Lead ingots dating back almost 3,000 years have been found with several broken-up bronze tools in a discovery which has excited experts.

Initial conservation work has revealed “exceptionally rare” silver-coloured items in a hoard of Bronze Age artefacts unearthed by a metal detectorist in the Borders.

Throughout Sardinia, these newly Unesco-inscribed stone necropolises tell the story of the island’s pre-Roman funerary customs. But for locals, they’re the enchanted homes of fairies.

A Highland museum has proposed building a replica Iron Age roundhouse.

The homes, which had circular stone walls and turf roofs, were once found across Scotland during the Bronze Age and the Iron Age.

An Iron age brooch made just before the Roman invasion was designed to be eye-catching, showing off the importance of its owner, says an expert.

Archaeologists say they have uncovered a precious hoard of bronze ornaments that were buried for safekeeping almost 3,000 years ago.

The Oxenham Arms is a very interesting historic building in South Tawton (SX650936) not far from Okehampton. It is claimed the building started life as an early Christian monastery in the twelfth century. It was built around a large standing stone that is thought to be prehistoric. The prehistoric stone is embedded in the wall of the small snug room at the back of the pub. It is listed on the Devon & Dartmoor HER as a prehistoric standing stone. In the dining room across the corridor is another stone which is claimed to be early Christian and was probably imported into the building in the eighteenth or nineteenth century... dartmoorwalks.org.uk/site/oxenham.php

A Bronze Age hoard discovered on land that was due to be turned into football pitches will go on display for the first time next year.

A team of archaeologists have discovered a “high status” Bronze Age burial site in a quarry in the Yorkshire Dales.

Volunteers have come together to begin work to rebuild a replica of an ancient roundhouse destroyed in a suspected arson attack.

The thatched Iron Age-era copy was almost completely destroyed in the blaze at Peterborough’s Flag Fen Archaeology Park on 13 July.

Work to rebuild a replica of an ancient roundhouse destroyed in a suspected arson attack is to begin.

The thatched Iron Age-era copy was almost completely destroyed in the blaze at Peterborough’s Flag Fen Archaeology Park on 13 July.

An appeal has been made for materials to help rebuild a replica Iron Age thatched roundhouse destroyed in an arson attack.

The roundhouse at Flag Fen Archaeology Park, Peterborough, was burnt down on Sunday 12 July.

Archaeologists say they have found evidence that a site in a village near St Andrews has been used by people for about 10,000 years.

Traces of an ancient hunter gatherers’ campsite and remains of grains harvested by some of Fife’s first farmers were among items discovered on the land in Guardbridge.

Tucked away in a corner of Hove Park in East Sussex is a big, brown and somewhat unassuming boulder.

But the story of the so-called Goldstone is far from unremarkable.

A replica of a 2,400-year-old cauldron has been forged to help archaeologists shed light on how people lived during the Iron Age.

A team of archaeologists has created the most precise reconstruction yet of a Roman siege on a British hillfort by using crime scene forensics.

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a large and complex hall where some of Scotland’s first farmers gathered for festivities.

An extensive Iron Age settlement established more than 2,000 years ago has been unearthed following a rare sword find, archaeologists have revealed.

Planning permission has been granted for construction of a large solar farm located near “nationally significant” Bronze Age rock art.