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 [...]
Wessex Culture Revolution? or Beaker Evolution? The Decline and Fall of Stonehenge – Conference at Bournemouth University 16-18th April, 2010
The conference will address a problem that archaeologists of the Early Bronze Age have faced since William Cunnington and Sir Richard Colt Hoare first dug into the barrows of Salisbury Plain. What happened to Beaker burial [...]
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 [...]
This clip with presenter Andrew Marr reveals the story of the White Horse of Uffington and how recent excavations have established the dating of the effigy to 1,000 B.C.
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FROM LOST IN FRANCE
Humans have occupied Armorica since the Palaeolithic era. Living originally as hunter gatherers, the population became settled in the Neolithic period (around 4500 BC), gradually mastering the techniques of raising livestock, cultivating crops and building.
This was the civilisation that created the tradition of standing stones. Most of the megaliths (dolmens, tumulus, and [...]
View Durrington Walls: Walk of the week in a larger map
FROM SUPPORTING ARTICLE AT THE TELEGRAPH
Mike Dando, Head Warden: “The walk starts at the largest henge monument in the country and takes you past ancient monuments such as Round Barrows and the ‘Cuckoo Stone’ where it is easy to imagine the landscape as it was [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Standing Stones in the northern desert of Saudi Arabia, Al-Rajajil is a barren plain with groups of standing stones of 4000 or 5000 years old. The tall thin stones, up to 3 meters high, have Thamudic inscriptions and are aligned to sunrise and sunset.
Called al-rajajil (”the men”) today, the pillars appear to the casual observer [...]
Survey of landscape suggests prehistoric monument was surrounded by two circular hedges
ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT THE GUARDIAN
The Monty Python knights who craved a shrubbery were not so far off the historical mark: archaeologists have uncovered startling evidence of The Great Stonehenge Hedge.
Inevitably dubbed Stonehedge, the evidence from a new survey of the Stonehenge landscape suggests that [...]
Recently, there have been quite a few archaeological revelations coming to light from the result of a wildfire that swept the moors of Fylingdales, N. Yorkshire. One of the items discovered is a “unique” carved stone, thought to be 4,000 years old. An article about the stone (from CULTURE 24) is below but before reading that, [...]
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