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November 15, 2023
October 23, 2023
Building Bronze Age-style log boats using replica tools and fire has revealed “how long and how much effort” it was to make prehistoric vessels.
More info : bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-67055114
October 22, 2023
The ruins of a 5,000-year-old tomb in a construction that reflects the pinnacle of neolithic engineering in northern Britain has been unearthed in Orkney.
Fourteen articulated skeletons of men, women and children – two positioned as if they were embracing – have been found inside one of six cells or side rooms.
The tomb measures more than 15m in diameter and contains a stone structure accessed through a long passage of around seven metres. The excavation was headed by Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark, senior curator of prehistory (neolithic) at the National Museums Scotland, and Vicki Cummings, professor of neolithic archaeology at Cardiff University.
October 16, 2023
Damage done to an ancient Neolithic passage tomb in Co Sligo has been strongly condemned.
Photographer Ken Williams visited the site over the weekend and took photographs of words and shapes scratched into stones at the tomb which is over 5,000 years old.
More: rte.ie/news/regional/2023/1016/1411157-carrowkeel-graffiti/
September 26, 2023
Scotland’s longest chamber cairn burial site has been the scene of recent activity
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September 23, 2023
Nationally important evidence of Iron Age furnaces and tools have been discovered during the excavation of a hillfort.
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September 21, 2023
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The story that just keeps on keeping on.
September 19, 2023
September 18, 2023
An intact Bronze Age pot and a previously unknown Saxon village with a large hall were among the “exceptional” finds unearthed during a dig.
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September 15, 2023
Free entry to one of the Western Isles’ best-known and ancient sites could end under plans to raise money to help cover the cost of its upkeep.
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September 4, 2023
Archaeologists have been excavating the recently-discovered 1.1km long cursus on the island of Arran. The article in The Scotsman shows the Lidar scans that alerted them to the parallel mounds (now merely 30cm high). Few examples are known from the west coast of Scotland.
September 3, 2023
Kilmartin Glen – on the road between Lochgilphead and Oban – is a tranquil place, but it hasn’t always been so.
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September 1, 2023
Fires have been lit in the centre of the 4,000-year-old Nine Ladies stone circle at Stanton in Peak, Derbyshire, and a tent found nearby.
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August 23, 2023
Perched on a hill outside Armagh city is Emain Macha – or Navan Fort.
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August 19, 2023
Nellie Wilson works part-time weaving together hazel branches to build the walls and roof of a replica Iron Age roundhouse.
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August 18, 2023
A museum is calling on Lego enthusiasts to build and pay for a replica of a historic Somerset hill fort.
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August 17, 2023
Just out from Historic England:
“A collection of Second World War aerial photography has been made accessible to the public for the first time.
The photographs were taken by the United States Army Air Forces Photographic Reconnaissance units stationed around England in 1943 and 1944.”
historicengland.org.uk/images-books/archive/collections/photographs/usaaf-collection/
Worth a look to spot ye antiquities, A quick look at the South Wonston area near Winchester (including Worthy Down camp, at the time occupied by the Royal Navy Air Service with Laurence Olivier among the staff) shows some nice marks for two of the cluster of four long barrows in the area, one of which was subsequently much reduced by the plough.
August 13, 2023
A hoard of Iron Age gold coins have been discovered for the first time in Wales.
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August 9, 2023
Lasting damage has been caused to the Deer Stone in Glendalough, Co Wicklow, in what appears to be an act of vandalism, according to Project Manager for HeritageMaps.ie Pat Reid.
Speaking on RTÉ’s Today with Philip Boucher-Hayes, Mr Reid said he believes someone lit a fire on the stone, which caused the boulder it is carved into to crack.
More: rte.ie/news/regional/2023/0809/1398883-deerstone-glendalough-wicklow/
July 28, 2023
A decades-long mystery over whether an Iron Age warrior who lived on the Isles of Scilly was a man or woman has been solved.
More info : bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-66314179
July 25, 2023
July 23, 2023
Bronze Age Barrows Being Excavated at Salisbury
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July 21, 2023
Remains of what is believed could have been a Bronze Age ritual cremation cemetery have been found at Shetland’s planned SaxaVord spaceport.
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bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-66259713
July 18, 2023
Archaeologists have unearthed a loom weight believed to date to the Bronze Age during an excavation.
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