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    • News £1 million Van Dyck portrait returns to Hampton Court Palace
      A 17th century Van Dyck portrait of Princess Mary, the eldest daughter of Charles I, has returned to its original home at Hampton Court Palace.
      12 February 2009
    • 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 a house with British and American flags flying by it in the country
      News 2014 World Monuments Watch lists Deptford, Grimsby, Northamptonshire and London
      Battersea Power Station, Sulgrave Manor, Grimsby Ice Factory and Deptford Dockyard are among 67 at-risk sites ranging from Bethlehem to Berlin.
      10 October 2013
    • A photo of people sitting in a gallery looking at a painting
      News £2.7 million bid to save Pieter Brueghel the Younger's Procession to Calvary ends in triumph
      A National Heritage Memorial Fund award of more than £1 million keeps the painting at Nostell Priory, capping a three-month campaign.
      06 January 2011
    • A photo of two curators holding up a painting of a man
      News £30 million Rembrandt painting proved genuine by scientists is revealed to public at abbey
      Designers who watched scientists investigate a Rembrandt portrait while creating a gallery for the £30 million work say their detective story reflects an "amazing" discovery.
      02 February 2015
    • A photo of a large mansion on green grass surrounded by scaffolding under a blue sky
      News £3.8 million restoration of 17th century Dyrham Park roof begins as organisers thank supporters
      A 17th century mansion near Bath will have its roof replaced with 46 tonnes of lead and 8,000 Welsh slates in a major restoration backed by around 10,000 donations.
      15 January 2015
    • News £40 million Rembrandt masterpiece is "real coup" for National Museum Cardiff
      A 17th century Rembrandt piece which has hung at a Welsh castle for 150 years has become the star piece in an exhibition of the Dutch master"s work at the National Museum Cardiff.
      23 November 2009
    • A photo of white shelves inside a large archive building
      Preview A home for history: Sneak preview of Brighton and Hove's new £19 million Keep archive
      Two years after construction work began, archivists have been given the keys to an impressive new community resource in Sussex. Duncan Andrews takes a look.
      10 June 2013
    • A photo of archaeologists digging on a brownfield site on top of a north american cliff
      News Aberdeen archaeologists rescue 700-year-old Yup'ik "melting village" in Quinhagak, Alaska
      Working with a tiny indigenous population on an Alaskan site three times the size of Scotland, experts from Aberdeen say their discoveries have wider implications for North America.
      10 January 2014
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      Museum: Garden, parklands or rural site, Archive, Library, Historic house or home, Gallery County: Somerset American Museum in Britain Bath
    • 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 an ancient black pot used for transporting industrial materials
      News An Industrial Revolution genius: This Abraham Darby pot is the western world's oldest coke iron casting
      An ancient cooking pot in the collection of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust looks like being the oldest known coke iron casting in the western world, explains Dr Richard Williams.
      24 January 2016
    • A photo of archaeologists excavating skeletons
      News Archaeologists begin excavating thousands of skeletons from London's first municipal cemetery
      Kirstie Brewer sees work start to create a ticket office at the Liverpool Street station site where thousands of burials from the 16th and 17th century are thought to lie.
      10 March 2015
    • A photo of the steep cliff of a coastal island under a blue sky
      News Archaeologists discover earliest British gun flints on Clan island off coast of Scotland
      Archaeologists have revealed the results of a 15-year archaeological investigation into a tiny Scottish island, including the first evidence of armed skirmishes on a Clan stronghold in the Hebrides.
      08 December 2015
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      News Archaeologists discover home of Charles I's surgeon at medieval Stratford site
      Archaeologists have found the remains of Tudor and medieval buildings, signs of a long-suspected Roman road and "a few hidden gems" during a dig at Stratford Broadway in London.
      13 December 2013
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      News Archaeologists enter "virgin territory" with dig of living quarters at Shakespeare's Birthplace
      Archaeologists who won planning permission to begin a dig at New Place, at Shakespeare's Birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon, expect the excavation to take four weeks when it begins on Wednesday.
      19 January 2015
    • A photo of a woman looking at a cow's skull against darkness
      News Archaeologists find cow skull from plague, human burials and children's cups beneath London mosque site
      The skull of a female longhorn could have been one of three cow burials symbolising a government battle against cattle plague in 18th century London, say archaeologists.
      15 April 2015
    • A photo of an area of an Edinburgh schoolground with a coffin imprint and archaeologists visible
      News Archaeologists have found at least nine coffins beneath a school playground in Edinburgh
      Archaeologists say they have found the outlines of "at least nine" further coffins at an Edinburgh school playground where a skeleton was found during the Easter holidays.
      19 May 2016
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      News Archaeologists investigate mystery of young Civil War woman buried in unusual grave in Oxford
      Carl Champness, of Oxford Archaeology, says the "wild theories" surrounding a woman buried in a garden during the 17th century could have overlooked a plague outbreak.
      14 May 2015
    • A photo of a snowy mountain in the Glencoe area of rural Scotland, owned by the Scottish National Trust
      News Archaeologists investigate remnants of building at site of Scotland's Massacre of Glencoe
      The Scottish National Trust says the remains of a building from a mass murder in the Scottish highlands could have been found on the 324th anniversary of the shocking massacre.
      16 February 2016
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