Friday, 29 July 2011

Yorkshire Museum buys rare sapphire ring

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A rare sapphire ring, discovered by a metal detector enthusiast, has been bought by the Yorkshire Museum. The museum has raised £35,000 to p...
Tuesday, 26 July 2011

Langstone Harbour Saxon logboat in Portsmouth display

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A 1,500-year-old logboat found buried in the mudflats of a harbour in Hampshire has gone on display. The Saxon boat excavated from Langstone...
Sunday, 24 July 2011

Sad News

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I am sad to report the death of our former colleague Dr David Hill yesterday, less than a year after his marriage to (another former colleag...
Thursday, 7 July 2011

Weymouth Relief Road dig reveals dental discovery

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A GRUESOME dental discovery has been unearthed during analysis of the Viking burial pit remains found during construction of the Weymouth Re...

.New discovery shows Vikings used to cut 'army stripes' into their teeth

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Viking warriors may have given a new meaning to the expression 'cutting your teeth in battle' after archaeologists discovered the No...
Wednesday, 6 July 2011

Weymouth burial pit shows Vikings filed their teeth

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Archaeologists have discovered that teeth belonging to a Viking warrior, found under the Weymouth relief road in Dorset, had been filed. The...

Dorset burial pit Viking had filed teeth

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Archaeologists have discovered one of the victims of a suspected mass Viking burial pit found in Dorset had grooves filed into his two front...
Tuesday, 5 July 2011

Grab the Viking Quiz!

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Sunday, 3 July 2011

Viking Quiz

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What do you know about the Vikings? Try this online quiz. It loads 10 randomly selected questions from a large database, so each time that ...

Exhibition of Staffordshire Hoard of gold goes back on display

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SPARKLING pieces from the Staffordshire Hoard are on display as conservationists uncover more of secrets of the treasure. This month 44 piec...

Staffordshire Hoard 'to help rewrite history'

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A haul of Anglo-Saxon gold discovered beneath a Staffordshire farmer's field could help rewrite history, experts say. Historians believe...
Saturday, 25 June 2011

Behind the scenes with the Staffordshire Hoard

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BURIED away deep within Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery is a room which houses scenes which could come straight from a CSI police show. Wo...
Thursday, 26 May 2011

Anglo-Saxon feast on the menu at Kirkleatham Museum

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FOOD fit for a princess is being served up at a Teesside museum cafe to celebrate a ground-breaking exhibition. The amazing story of the lif...
Monday, 16 May 2011

Loftus royal treasure display attracts crowds

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An exhibition showcasing Teesside's links to Anglo-Saxon royalty attracted almost 1,700 people over five days. The 7th Century artefacts...
Sunday, 15 May 2011

Pottery fragments from Glastonbury Abbey cast new light on Dark Ages

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Archaeologists are gearing up to share their discovery that the history of Glastonbury Abbey site reaches right back to the Dark Ages. Previ...

Glastonbury Abbey's pottery link to Dark Ages

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Pottery fragments from an excavation archive of Glastonbury Abbey have shown the site dates back to the Dark Ages, which is later than previ...
Thursday, 5 May 2011

Anglo Saxon jewellery from Loftus burial site goes on show

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A UNIQUE collection of Anglo-Saxon jewellery found in the North-East is set to go on display to the public for the first time. The seventh c...

Anglo-Saxon princess pendant at Kirkleatham

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Add a commentRecommend SHE was buried with her jewellery about 1,400 years ago in East Cleveland - and now her story is being graphically to...
Thursday, 28 April 2011

Historic Church's Subterranean Secrets Revealed

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Researchers from Kingston University in London have carried out a full scientific survey of an historic churchyard widely believed to be the...

Anglo-Saxon hall unearthed at Bamburgh Castle

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An archaeological research team in Northumberland has unearthed a medieval hall underneath Bamburgh Castle. Bamburgh Castle Research Project...