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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
    • 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
    • News 5,000-year-old Westray wife tours Scotland
      The 5,000-year-old Westray Wife figurine, found in the Orkney Islands last year, is to go on tour in Scotland.
      08 March 2010
    • A photo of a woman working with a carved effigy of Bishop Archibald of Moray at Elgin Cathedral
      News A 700-year-old effigy of a Bishop is being resurrected alongside medieval stones at a cathedral in Scotland
      An effigy of a powerful medieval bishop is going on display for the first time in 20 years in Elgin for the Easter weekend and beyond.
      21 March 2016
    • 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 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 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
    • film still of a man standing in a trench
      AHRC puts film of Blue Stonehenge stone circle discovery on YouTube
      Ahead of the full report in February on the recent discovery of a stone circle site near Stonehenge the Arts and Humanities Research Council has published a film about the 'Bluestonehenge' excavation on YouTube.
      08 October 2009
    • A photo of a fragment of a stone male head from the Vindolanda Museum in Northumberland
      News "Almost unbelievable" return of stolen Roman head surprises staff at Vindolanda
      A stone fragment of the head of a young male, stolen from Roman Vindolanda in Northumberland in the first theft at the site for 45 years, has been quietly returned four months later.
      14 October 2015
    • A photo of a Roman sculpture of an eagle
      News "Almost unbelievable" Roman archaeology find thrills Museum of London archaeologists
      Archaeologists in the city of London say a limestone sculpture of an eagle, dated to the 1st or 2nd century AD, could be the finest Romano-British example ever discovered.
      29 October 2013
    • A photo of various bones in an archaeological pit
      News "Amazing" Bronze Age burial in Buckinghamshire contained skeletons of two children, say archaeologists
      Archaeologists examining 250 bones and fragments say they could come from a Bronze Age burial on an island cut off by the River Thames.
      05 November 2014
    • A photo of a woman wearing purple gloves holding up a piece of civil war body armour
      C24 Feature Amputation knives to historical gold mines: key exhibits from the new National Civil War Centre
      Ahead of the public opening of the new £5.4 million National Civil War Centre in Newark on Sunday, curators and experts introduce some of the star objects going on display.
      30 April 2015
    • A photo of a skeleton through an opening in a floor
      News An amazing grave: Archaeologists say skeleton of woman is latest known early medieval burial found in Wales
      Archaeologists will carry out tests on the dental enamel of a 12th or 13th century woman, in her 60s and suffering arthritis, found beneath a church site in Nefyn.
      26 March 2015
    • A photo of a green farming field under a grey and white sky
      News "An untouched archaeological treasure chest": Excavations to begin at vale ten times size of Stonehenge
      The Vale of Pewsey, where Marden, a house built in around 2400 BC stands, is at the centre of a three-year archaeological investigation led by the University of Reading.
      24 June 2015
    • Mummified animals of Manchester Museum, from the exhibition Gift for the Gods, with help from the University of Manchester and the Ancient Egyptian Bio Bank Project.
      News Ancient Egyptians slaughtered animals on "industrial scale", according to new exhibition
      The Manchester Museum will explore the industry of slaughter surrounding votive offerings of mummified animals in a new exhibition, Gift for the Gods.
      12 August 2015
    • A photo of various ancient bronze artefacts against a black background
      News Anglo-Saxon warrior splendour: The "extremely significant" new finds from the Staffordshire Hoard
      Carried out with a £400,000 grant from Historic England, Birmingham Museums Trust and the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery say their new research is “like a giant jigsaw puzzle".
      29 May 2015
    • A photo of people walking through an archive store
      News Archaeological "Aladdin's cave" opens to public at English Heritage's Wrest Park
      Pictures, facts and figures as English Heritage puts a third of its total stored collection on public display in a £1.9 million warehouse following a two-and-a-half year project.
      07 May 2014
    • A photo of the enormous Reading Abbey
      News Archaeologists are about to discover where Henry I was buried at Reading's huge medieval abbey
      The spot where Henry I was buried is almost certain to be revealed as archaeologists begin to scan his former powerhouse at Reading Abbey this week.
      13 June 2016
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