Dig Alderney are set to begin excavations at the western end of Longis Common next month.
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High on a limestone cliff in the north west Highlands are caves that have fascinated visitors to the area for at least 135 years.
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Researchers are investigating whether Stonehenge aligns with the positions of the Moon, as well as the Sun.
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Apps and new technology could modernise the search for buried treasure in Scotland, experts say.
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Rich Hiden’s voice was shaking as he spoke to BBC Radio Scotland in June 2021.
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The discovery of a 3,000-year-old “recycling bin” used to collect broken objects shows that people from that era were “not very different to us”, an expert said.
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Historic Environment Scotland ruled that plans for a wind farm were ‘too advanced’ to change the designation of the Craig Dorney hill fort site to one of ‘national importance, despite new evidence.
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One of my favourite sites, always a privilege to visit. Aberdeen Live have even pinched one my photographs!!!
Cyclists are damaging an ancient hill fort, a councillor has claimed.
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A woman who lives more than 4,000 miles away from Wiltshire has recreated an ancient necklace from the county.
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Campaigners have vowed to continue their fight against a proposed road tunnel on the A303 near Stonehenge.
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Campaigners have lost a High Court challenge against renewed plans to build a road tunnel near Stonehenge.
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The “exceptional” condition of a hoard of 10 Bronze Age axes discovered by a detectorist has surprised an expert.
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Altóir na Gréine stood for approximately 4,000 years on Dingle peninsula before vanishing in 19th century.
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The discovery that an Iron Age hillfort was probably not used as a permanent settlement is to feature on BBC Two’s Digging for Britain.
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AN historic Scottish church with a 4000-year-old stone circle in its grounds has been put up for sale.
Interesting story from Scotland’s best newspaper.
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Temporary loos will not be installed at Orkney’s famous Ring of Brodgar stone circle, despite concerns over “undesirable toileting behaviour”.
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Concern has been expressed about “undesirable toileting behaviour” at Orkney’s famous Ring of Brodgar stone circle.
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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.
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Scotland’s longest chamber cairn burial site has been the scene of recent activity
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Nationally important evidence of Iron Age furnaces and tools have been discovered during the excavation of a hillfort.
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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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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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Kilmartin Glen – on the road between Lochgilphead and Oban – is a tranquil place, but it hasn’t always been so.
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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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Perched on a hill outside Armagh city is Emain Macha – or Navan Fort.
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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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A museum is calling on Lego enthusiasts to build and pay for a replica of a historic Somerset hill fort.
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A hoard of Iron Age gold coins have been discovered for the first time in Wales.
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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.
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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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Archaeologists have unearthed a loom weight believed to date to the Bronze Age during an excavation.
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A section of a Bronze Age twisted gold torc has been found in a field by a metal detectorist.
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Researchers in Kent have unearthed some of the largest early prehistoric stone tools ever found in Britain.
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Linmere site has more monumental pits in a single area than anywhere else in England and Wales
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German archaeologists are thrilled to have dug up a Bronze Age sword more than 3,000 years old which is extraordinarily well preserved.
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Volunteers are helping to build a replica crannog on Loch Tay after an earlier model burned down two years ago.
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The site overlooking Stirling may have been a political centre for a group of people known as the Maiatai.
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About a hundred stones, sticking up, jagged and angular, pointing in different directions, earthfast still after more than 2,000 years.’
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Three iron age settlements in Shetland are in the running to win Unesco World Heritage status.
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A collection of Bronze Age finds are returning on loan to the island where they were found
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Replicas of Bronze Age artefacts discovered at a site dubbed “Britain’s Pompeii” have been created by experimental archaeologists.
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An archaeology project is to make its final excavation of a 5,000-year-old Neolithic site in Orkney next year.
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Skeletal remains of six men found under a kitchen floor in the Highlands have been revealed to date back to Scotland’s Iron Age.
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The discovery of a Neolithic era settlement is helping shed new light on how people lived on the shores of Lough Foyle some 5,000 years ago.
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THE highest concentration of ancient rock art ever discovered in the Highlands has been found on hillside farmland in Ross-shire, it has been revealed.
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A 5,000-year-old timber circle burnt down during a Neolithic midwinter solstice has been excavated for the first time since the 1930s.
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A place where people with an axe to grind gathered 4,500 years ago has been uncovered by archaeologists and volunteers.
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A woman who lived in Orkney 1,800 years ago had a diet that was unusually rich in seafood, say archaeologists.
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Archaeology Shetland has found 6,000 years worth of archaeology in the isles, but one hotspot in particular faces going underwater.
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Archaeologists believe they have found a place where some of Scotland’s last hunters-gatherers may have paused on a journey through the Cairngorms.
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