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 [...]
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 [...]
COMPLETE ARTICLE by Sarah Head AT MERCIAN MUSE
When an opportunity arose to greet the sunrise at Stonehenge, I jumped at it. Never an early riser, the winter months appeared to give ample time to welcome the light at a reasonable hour. As the date grew closer, a welcoming bed and breakfast was booked in Salisbury [...]
ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT BBC KENT
In the lower Medway valley, on both sides of the river, are a number of large sarsen stones which are collectively known as The Medway Megaliths. They were moved there between 2500-1700 BC and were part of Neolithic, chambered long barrows, which were ancient burial tombs.
The Medway Megaliths are the only [...]
Article form the Scarborough Evening News 9th July 2009
TOMORROW marks the 175th anniversary of the discovery of Scarborough’s bronze age ancestor, Gristhorpe Man.
Now residing in the Rotunda Museum, Gristhorpe Man, the tallest prehistoric skeleton measured to date, was found by William Beswick and members of the Scarborough Philosophical Society on Thursday July 10 1834.
The museum [...]
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