Monday, 7 May 2018

Beowulf: The enduring appeal of an Anglo-Saxon 'superhero story'

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Beowulf is the oldest surviving epic poem in the English language As the cold sting of winter finally starts to fade, so the literary f...
Friday, 30 March 2018

Anglo-Saxon settlement and Roman army camp found in A14 bypass dig

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An archaeologist excavates a skeleton in Cambridgeshire. Photograph: Highways  England/MOLA Headland Infrastructure It’s taken more t...
Thursday, 8 February 2018

Ancient artefacts found during Hornsea Project One wind farm work

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Thousands of artefacts and archaeological remains have been found during work to bury underground cables for an offshore wind farm. Coi...
Monday, 5 February 2018

Radiocarbon dating reveals mass grave did date to the Viking age

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A team of archaeologists, led by Cat Jarman from the University of Bristol's Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, has discovered ...

This Mass Grave May Belong to 'Great Viking Army'

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Bones are yielding new clues about the massive, mysterious Viking forces that invaded England. A photo taken at a 1982 excavation of th...
Friday, 2 February 2018

Canterbury artefacts 'may have been stolen by metal thieves'

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Two suspected metal thieves are believed to be behind the theft of an archaeological hoard including hundreds of Anglo-Saxon beads and i...

Thieves steal hundreds of priceless artefacts from Canterbury charity

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Priceless artefacts including 850 Anglo-Saxon beads have been stolen from an archaeological charity in Canterbury during a series of brea...
Monday, 27 November 2017

Archaeologists uncover ancient Viking camp from the 870s in village of Repton

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University of Bristol students excavated a Viking camp dating to a winter in the 870s (PA) A Viking camp that dates back to the 870s ha...

New Research on Viking Army Camp at Repton

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(Courtesy Cat Jarman) Archaeologists have turned up new evidence about a ninth-century Viking overwintering camp in the Derbyshire vill...
Tuesday, 17 October 2017

Using parchment to reveal the ancient lives of livestock

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A page from the York Gospels. Eraser rubbings left over from cleaning the pages of this manuscript revealed the ancient genomes of the an...
Monday, 16 October 2017

UK’s north-south divide dates back to Vikings, says archaeologist

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A division 1,000 years in the making? Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian The north-south divide has been the butt of jokes in ...
Wednesday, 20 September 2017

'Exceptionally rare' crucifix found by metal detectorist in England

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An "exceptionally rare" ancient crucifix has been unearthed by an amateur metal detectorist. The 2cm (0.78in) tall lead object, wh...
Thursday, 27 July 2017

Uncovering the Galloway Viking Hoard, layer by layer

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Hold on to your Viking helmet; you’re about to dig, layer by layer, into one of the most extraordinary Viking hoards ever found on the B...
Wednesday, 26 July 2017

Archaeologists Return to Legendary Birthplace of King Arthur

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Archaeologists have completed the first stage of a major five-year study of the archaeology of the Tintagel headland in Cornwall, in th...

1,100-year-old coin found in royal Pictish power centre

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The 1,100-year-old coin found at an archaeological dig at Burghead Fort. Picture: PA A 1,100-year-old coin is amongst a series of disc...

Casting light on the Dark Ages: Anglo-Saxon fenland is re-imagined

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What was life in the fens like in the period known as the dark ages? Archaeologist Susan Oosthuizen revisits the history of an iconic wetlan...
Thursday, 20 July 2017

Southampton Water fish trap dated to Saxon times

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The trap was found by chance close to the Fawley oil refinery by archaeology students more than 10 years ago. A timber fishing trap ex...
Wednesday, 19 July 2017

Archaeologists discover mound next to Slough car park is 'prestigious' Anglo-Saxon monument

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Archaeologists have found that a 20-foot high mound in Slough, thought to be a Norman castle motte and for centuries the centrepiece of...
Sunday, 16 July 2017

One of the most important buildings in history of Christianity discovered off Scottish coast

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Archaeologists have located one of the most important buildings in the history of Western European Christianity – but it’s not a vast c...

Tintagel excavations reveal refined tastes of medieval settlers

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 Archaeologists conducting the first research excavations at Tintagel in decades.  Photograph: Emily Whitfield-Wicks/English He/PA E...