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    • A photo of a glowing amber artefact against a black background
      News 10,000 Temple of Mithras discoveries draw comparisons with Pompeii in Roman London
      Experts from Museum of London Archaeology say thousands of "beautifully preserved" remains in London could transform our understanding of Roman Britain.
      10 April 2013
    • News 1,000-Year-Old Viking Longship Could Be Buried Under Pub Car Park
      Experts believe they have made one of the UK's most significant discoveries - a 1,000-year-old Viking longship buried under a pub car park in the Wirral.
      10 September 2007
    • A photo of a man holding up an ancient Roman coin at the Yorkshire Museum in York
      News 11,000 pints of beer: Museum launches appeal to save thousands of coins from political upheaval of 4th century
      The Yorkshire Museum needs to raise £44,000 in four months to keep the largest hoard of its kind ever found in the north of England.
      25 July 2016
    • A photo of a piece of prehistoric human bone found in a cave in Georgia
      News 13,000-year-old hunter-gatherer bone in Georgian cave reveals "major new piece in human jigsaw", say scientists
      Zoologists have used a human right temporal bone from more than 13,000 years ago to pinpoint a new "fourth strand" of ancestry in pre and post-Ice Age Europeans.
      16 November 2015
    • A photo of a man holding up a small bone from the wing of a bird on parkland
      News 1,500-year-old bone of giant auk found by archaeologists in early medieval Scotland
      Archaeologists and leaders at the Scottish Seabird Centre say the upper arm bone of a flightless bird, last scene in Scotland in 1840, provides a warning about extinction.
      12 May 2014
    • A photo of an ancient shoe
      News 17th century bunion sufferer's shoe, dolls and knives found under mansion floorboards
      Cabling works have led to hundreds of finds at Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire, including a shoe believed to have been buried in a bid to ward off evil spirits.
      28 February 2014
    • A photo of people holding a large grey fossil on the steps of a circular museum
      News 200 million-year-old fish fossils return to Scarborough after "extended vacation"
      Having spent 50 years in Doncaster, a set of ancient fish fossils are returning to Scarborough following a conservation project which has delighted curators in Yorkshire.
      12 August 2013
    • A photo of an archaeological site with stones and mud
      News 900-year-old Medieval murder mystery dug up at the Scottish Seabird Centre
      A murdered 20-year-old archer was stabbed with a "degree of calculation" in Medieval Scotland, say archaeologists investigating graves and tools from 1,000 years ago.
      24 February 2014
    • A photo of a dark brown prehistoric plot of archaeological land in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
      News A circular prehistoric monument built by early Welsh farmers for ritual performance has been found in Wales
      A circular prehistoric monument built by some of the earliest farmers in Wales has been discovered in the Vale of Glamorgan near a series of pits containing pottery and flint.
      09 June 2016
    • A photo of a male archaeologist working in a field under a grey sky
      News A connection with prehistory: Artists create film about one of UK's first Neolithic ritual monuments
      A year-long set of excavations at Whitehawk Hill, a 5,500-year-old Stone Age monument covering six acres above Brighton, has been turned into a three-screen installation by artists and filmmakers.
      09 February 2016
    • A photo of dinosaur footprints on rocks across an island
      News "A dinosaur disco preserved in stone": Scientists find tracks of long-necked sauropod dinosaurs from 170 million years ago in Scottish lagoons
      Sauropods could have supported their "hopelessly heavy" weight by lounging in swamps on the Isle of Skye during the Middle Jurassic period, say scientists.
      02 December 2015
    • A photo of a dinosaur bone
      News A Dragon Robber with a missing foot: Brothers discover UK's oldest Jurassic dinosaur on Welsh beach
      A dinosaur known as the Welsh Dragon that was found on a beach near Penarth has been reunited with one of its missing feet and named in honour of the fossil hunters who unearthed it.
      21 January 2016
    • A photo of a gold archaeological ring found in Wales
      News A gold medieval ring, a silver finger band and Roman soldiers' pay: The new archaeological treasures of Wales
      See the hoard of roman silver coins, gold medieval ring and 12th century silver finger band which have been declared with the guidance of National Museum Wales.
      26 November 2015
    • A photo of a small sculpted face found on the Caribbean dominican republic by archaeologists
      Curator's Choice A guaíza: The tiny sculpture of a face found by archaeologists at an indigenous Dominican Republic house
      This creamy coloured face, found by archaeologists in the Caribbean, is roughly the size of half a hard-boiled egg and dates from the 13th or 14th century, says Alice Samson.
      10 April 2016
    • a photo of a large outdoor archaeological site on the coast of Scotland's Ness of Brodgar
      News A huge mysterious structure has been discovered under the largest Neolithic rubbish dump in Scotland
      A mysterious ten-metre wide structure and a set of huge slabs have been discovered in one of the final trenches dug at a historic site on an Orkney ness.
      24 August 2016
    • A photo of a section of bone in a prehistoric cairn in Orkney, scotland
      News A human jawbone with teeth has been found placed in a massive whalebone vertebra at a prehistoric cairn in Orkney
      Prehistoric Scots put a human jawbone inside a whalebone in a "ritual of foundation or abandonment", say archaeologists who found the burials alongside a quern, mortar and pig and cattle remains.
      08 July 2016
    • A photo of a medieval spindle found by suffolk archaeology
      News A kitchen story, a quarry, bones and gaming pieces: These medieval finds have been found at a Suffolk school
      Excavations at a Suffolk school have revealed a series of objects from across the centuries - including the remains of a kitchen and cold store built on an 11th century road.
      09 May 2016
    • A photo of burnt hazlenut shells found at a mesolithic hunter-gatherer site in Scotland
      News "A Mesolithic favourite": The hazlenuts eaten by hunter-gatherers 8,000 years ago in Scotland
      Archaeologists have described significant amounts of charred hazlenut shells, found in the first excavation at Staffin Bay for 20 years, as "the ideal thing to date".
      02 November 2015
    • A photo of an Archaeological site near the Isle of Rum in Scotland where prehistoric finds have been made
      News A Mesolithic social territory: Archaeologists examine bloodstones in forest on north-west coast of Scotland
      Charcoal-producing platforms, roundhouses, tools and evidence of hunter-gathering have been found at a site on the north-west coast of Scotland, say archaeologists.
      14 March 2016
    • A photo of archaeologists carrying out work at St John's Square Shopping in Perth, Scotland
      News "A rescue intervention": 20 years on, report reveals medieval shoes, cutlery and more found at Scottish shopping centre
      Health and safety meant archaeologists were restricted to a watching brief at St John's Square Shopping Centre in Perth in 1985 and 1986. But a new report shows they still made impressive medieval finds.
      19 April 2016
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