Channel 5 Programme in Trouble
This is an interesting one. Archaeologists successfully campaign to stop people digging up yesterday’s heroes.
This is an interesting one. Archaeologists successfully campaign to stop people digging up yesterday’s heroes.
This article from the Museums Association, discussing the challenge of storing all the output from archaeology, strangely makes little if any reference to storing excavated ancestors.
Having raised concerns about a recent call in the Guardian for unlimited exhumation and retention of human remains, HAD has received a reply from the Ministry of Justice that reaffirms the requirement for exhumation...
On 4th February a letter from Professor Barry Cunliffe and 39 other professors was published in The Guardian newspaper calling for the lifting on licensing requirements for archaeological excavation of ancient human remains and,...
In August 209, a group from the The Longstone Local History Group digging on the site of an Iron Age hill fort at Fin Cop, near Monsl Dale in the Pek District unearthed a...
Archaeologists have discovered evidence of a pre-historic monumental landscape under Oxford while excavating the former Radcliffe Infirmary site. Read More At: Physorg.com
A vast quantity of gold and silver treasures have been found in Staffordshire by a metal detectorist. The following passage from Beowulf – translated by Sheamus Heaney – speaks wonderfully of such things… BEOWULF...
Aerial surveying has revealed a huge complex of barrows and reputedly ceremonial sites on farmland near Damerham – approximately 15 miles from Stonehenge. It is believed that the site predates Stonehenge and is around 6,000...
Builders working on the ‘Olympic Highway’ relief road on Ridgeway Hill near Weymouth have uncovered a 2000 year old mass grave near Maiden Castle, Dorset. The bodies are thought to be local victims of the...
Camp Bling – established in 2006 to oppose the widening of the road at Priory Park – is to be disbanded after the local council has abandoned plans to go ahead with the scheme. ...
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