FROM EDP24 by Rebecca Gough
People will be able to travel back in time 5,000 years thanks to a new interactive exhibition at Grime’s Graves.
The site, the only Neolithic mine open to the public in England, will tomorrow open a series of audio and visual displays designed to draw people into the hidden world of flint-knapping.
A [...]
FROM THE SALISBURY JOURNAL by Miranda Robertson
SALISBURY and South Wiltshire Museum has been awarded £87,400 to create a new gallery – with the promise of £1.6million more.
The museum is in the running to win the cash from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to shed more light on the history and archaeology of Salisbury and the [...]
FROM RADIO NETHERLANDS WORDWIDE
People may well have been roaming the land we now call the Netherlands for far longer than was assumed until recently. There is evidence to suggest that the country was home to the forebears of the Neanderthals. Amateur archaeologist Pieter Stoel found materials used by the oldest inhabitants in the central town [...]
FROM GLOBAL ARAB NETWORK
Tal Bokrous is a sample of the first agricultural village built according to the architectural style of the Stone Age in Deir Ezzor, (432 kms northeast of Damascus, Syria).
The site is the only archaeological discovery at the Middle Euphrates Region which belongs to the booming phase of the Neolithic era.
The Neolithic era [...]
FROM THISISBRISTOL.CO.UK
Ask anyone in Bristol to name an ancient stone circle, and 90 per cent of people will probably say Stonehenge. A few of the wider-read sorts might mention Avebury. But remarkably, few will say the words Stanton Drew.
While Wiltshire’s two landmark sites are known worldwide, Bristol’s own major neolithic stone circle goes largely unnoticed.
But [...]
FROM THE WESTERN TELEGRAPH
A bronze age gold lock ring found in a north Pembrokeshire field was officially declared treasure by Pembrokeshire Coroner, Mark Layton, today (Thursday).
The ring, the first to be found in south and west Wales, was discovered in March 2009 by Trystan Johns, from Rhydlewis. Trystan is a member of Pembrokeshire Prospectors and [...]
FROM THE IRISH TIMES
Port developers anxious to avoid ‘very significant’ neolithic complex, writes FRANK MACDONALD , Environment Editor
A PROPOSED deepwater container port at Bremore in north Co Dublin may be moved farther north to Gormanston, Co Meath, to avoid encroaching on a neolithic complex of passage tombs.
A spokesman for Treasury Holdings, which is planning to [...]
FROM THE DAILY RECORD
A BUILDER was forced to design a luxury estate around a rock – because locals said fairies lived under it.
Work on the multi-million pound development ground to a halt when villagers complained that the fairies would be “upset”.
Marcus Salter, of Genesis Properties, estimates the colony of fairies believed to be under the [...]
FROM THE WESTMORELAND GAZETTE
ARCHAEOLOGISTS in the Duddon Valley have uncovered over 3,000 previously unrecorded historic sites after a four-year survey of the area.
The Duddon Valley Local History Group, in partnership with the Lake District National Park Authority, found ring-cairns that could date back to the Bronze Age.
Two of the most exciting finds uncovered in the [...]
THIS FROM ANDY BURNHAM AT THE MEGALITHIC PORTAL (Wish I’d thought of it first!)
A competition to find megaliths*, earthworks and other ancient sites on Google Street View via the Megalithic Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk , with lots of prizes on offer.
Look for the competition link in the left menu
On Thursday 11th March Google rolled out its Street View service [...]
ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT THE IRISH TIMES
A MYSTERIOUS ring fort in Co Tipperary holds “massive potential for discoveries” according to archaeologists who have carried out the first survey of the site.
Their initial findings suggest that the site may have been used for Bronze Age sporting contests in an arena that is the ancient equivalent of Semple [...]
FROM MANCHESTER.AC.UK
The team which discovered the site of a second stone circle, 500 years older than the nearby Stonehenge has won a prestigious archaeology award.
The sensational discovery of a 5000 year-old “Blue Stonehenge” was made by a team led by archaeologists from Manchester, Sheffield and Bristol Universities on the West bank of the River Avon [...]
READ ORIGINAL ARTICLE by Owen Jarus AT THE INDEPENDENT
For Dr. Robert Mason, an archaeologist with the Royal Ontario Museum, it all began with a walk last summer. Mason conducts work at the Deir Mar Musa al-Habashi monastery, out in the Syrian Desert. Finds from the monastery, which is still in use today by monks, date [...]
One of the world’s oldest shipwrecks has been discovered off the coast of Devon after lying on the seabed for almost 3,000 years.
ARTICLE by Jasper Copping FROM TELEGRAPH.CO.UK
The trading vessel was carrying an extremely valuable cargo of tin and hundreds of copper ingots from the Continent when it sank.
Experts say the “incredibly exciting” discovery provides [...]
FROM THE SALISBURY JOURNAL
VISITORS to Stonehenge will now be able to take advantage of an expansion to the always popular Stonehenge Tour.
The new package for 2010/11, beginning on March 16, will feature Salisbury Cathedral and the Magna Carta and enable visitors to explore Stonehenge, the hillfort of Old Sarum, and the cathedral using a single [...]
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