Category: Prehistory
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Lyminge excavation
My Photos Tayne Field 2014 excavation. Lyminge Archaeological Project Archaeologists from the University of Reading, along with local volunteers, archaeological societies and university students have working here each summer until 2014 to uncover Lyminge’s Anglo-Saxon past.
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Anglesey tomb excavation
Anglesey: Mysterious artefact discovered at Neolithic tomb Find at Perthi Duon excavation site near Brynsiencyn could prove existence of a British Copper Age says archaeology expert The discovery of a mysterious copper artefact at a Neolithic tomb on Anglesey could help to answer one of archaeology’s burning questions. Dr George Nash, who led the excavation…
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Bronze Age sheepskin
Bronze Age sheepskin discovered in Sutherland ARCHAEOLOGISTS have found evidence of the first Bronze Age body in Britain being wrapped in sheepskin – in a prehistoric cist discovered by accident during work on a septic tank at a village in Sutherland. Fragments of the 4000 year-old sheepskin were discovered around the left arm bone of…
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Bronze Age boat reconstruction
It didn’t sink! Full-size, sewn-together replica of a Bronze Age boat launched to trials success For the first time in almost 3000 years – a full size Bronze Age style sea-going boat has been launched in Britain. Slipping gracefully down a slipway today into Falmouth Harbour, Cornwall, the 15m-long vessel was then paddled by its…
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Must Farm log boats
Eight bronze age boats surface at Fens creek in record find A fleet of eight prehistoric boats, including one almost nine metres long, has been discovered in a Cambridgeshire quarry on the outskirts of Peterborough. The vessels, all deliberately sunk more than 3,000 years ago, are the largest group of bronze age boats ever found…
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Kingsmead Quarry, Horton, nr. Windsor
Four-thousand year old gold-adorned skeleton found near Windsor Windsor may have been popular with royalty rather earlier than generally thought. Archaeologists, excavating near the Royal Borough, have discovered the 4400 year old gold-adorned skeleton of an upper class woman who was almost certainly a member of the local ruling elite. She is the earliest known…
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White Horse Hill cist Dartmoor
‘Amazing’ treasures revealed in Dartmoor bronze age cist A rare and “amazing” burial discovery dating back 4,000 years has been described as the most significant find on Dartmoor and has given archaeologists a glimpse into the lives of the people who once lived there. The discovery of a bronze age granite cist, or grave, in…
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Houghton-le-Spring church and Neolithic stones
Houghton church uncovers evidence of pagan worship ARCHAEOLOGISTS working at an historic North-East church have discovered evidence that the site may have been used for worship since the Stone Age. St Michael and All Angels, Church, in Houghton-le-Spring, has been a site of Christian worship for nearly 1,000 years, but a stone circle found on…
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Orkney “ring-shaped feature” offshore
Stone circle to rival Ring of Brodgar found off Orkney coast THE remains of a Neolithic stone circle that could rival the most impressive in Britain may have been found off the coast of Orkney. Archaeologists surveying the seabed near the island chain’s famous Ring of Brodgar believe they could have discovered an earlier version…
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