Friday, 27 March 2015

DNA map of UK migration history shows Vikings drew the line at pillaging

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Analysis shows less Viking DNA than expected, and no single group of Celts. A fine-grained genetic analysis has created a detailed ma...

The Bayeux Tapestry and the Norman Conquest

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The Bayeux Tapestry and the Norman Conquest: A Commemoration of 1066 5 - 7 Feb 2016 2016 is the 950 th  anniversary of the momen...
Wednesday, 18 March 2015

DNA study shows Celts are not a unique genetic group

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A depiction of the Celtic Queen Boudicca from AD 1. Why are Celts' descendents not a single genetic grouping? A DNA study of Brito...
Thursday, 5 March 2015

Anglo-Saxon pendant found in Norfolk field

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A student who unearthed an "outstanding" piece of Anglo-Saxon jewellery believes it could be worth tens of thousands of pounds.  ...
Monday, 19 January 2015

Hinkley Point C excavations unearth bones from the Dark Ages

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The burials date from the 7th Century A Dark Ages cemetery and more than 100 burials has been unearthed at the site of a new nuclear p...

Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers (Online Course)

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Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers (Online Course) Mon 26 Jan to Fri 17 Apr 2015 University of Oxford  Department of Con...
Wednesday, 14 January 2015

Viking Artefacts

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Viking Artefacts is an interesting blog run by Thomas Kamphaus. He describes his interest as follows:  "Why interested in viking...
Monday, 12 January 2015

Mid-Norway Vikings among the first to sail to British Isles

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Circular brooch from a woman’s grave in Nes, Bjung municipality. (Photo: Per Fredriksen, NTNU University Museum) Archaeological findin...
Wednesday, 3 December 2014

Gardener unearths Anglo-Saxon carving in job lot of rockery stone

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Looking for some natural stone for a rockery in his garden, John Wyatt thought he had found a bargain when he saw a job lot advertised ...
Monday, 1 December 2014

EMAS Easter Study Tour to North Scotland and the Isle of Skye

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EMAS Easter Study Tour to North Scotland  and the Isle of Skye 2 - 8 April 2015 The 2015 EMAS Easter Study Tour is to the Nort...

Saxon skeleton among discoveries in Aylesham

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A Saxon skeleton, Bronze Age urns and Roman domestic objects were unearthed during a dramatic excavation in Aylesham this week.  The...
Friday, 28 November 2014

Sword’s Secrets Revealed

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The discovery of an Anglo-Saxon sword this summer was cause for great excitement at the  Barrow Clump excavation. We were keen to learn a...
Thursday, 27 November 2014

HAS ONE OF HARALD BLUETOOTH’S FORTRESSES COME TO LIGHT?

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In September 2014, archaeologists from the Danish Castle Centre and Aarhus University announced the discovery of a Viking fortress in a f...

X-rays reveal secrets of Anglo-Saxon sword

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Archaeologists have used an army field hospital’s x-ray machine to examine a corroded steel sword, confirming the pattern of the weapon alo...
Thursday, 20 November 2014

Anglo Saxon graves found during excavation of Burwell Road, Exning

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Twenty one skeletons of Anglo Saxon people have been found – just one foot under the ground – during an archaeological dig in Exning. ...
Tuesday, 24 June 2014

Major dig planned at Battle of Hastings sites

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One of the world’s top battlefield archaeologists is to lead an ambitious project which aims to finally unearth remains from the Battle of ...
Monday, 16 June 2014

Preserving the Battle of Hastings from contamination

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The Battle of Hastings is regularly fought all over again by enthusiastic re-enactors, before large crowds of spectators. The problem is th...
Wednesday, 28 May 2014

Decoding Anglo-Saxon art

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Silver-gilt square-headed brooch from Grave 22, Chessell Down, Isle of Wight. Early Anglo-Saxon, early 6th century AD One of the most ...
Friday, 23 May 2014

Skeleton executed by sword blows to head poses questions on Norman Conquest

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A potentially groundbreaking discovery has been announced as part of the 750th anniversary commemorations of the Battle of Lewes in Susse...
Tuesday, 13 May 2014

DORSET VIKING AGE MASS BURIAL PUBLICATION

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I n 2009 during the construction of the Weymouth Relief Road in Dorset archaeologists from Oxford Archaeology made one of the most exciti...