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Saturday, September 30, 2006

YORK'S VIKING GOLD ARMBAND GOES ON DISPLAY AT YORKSHIRE MUSEUM

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A rare piece of Viking gold that was discovered in the possessions of a deceased builder from York has finally gone on display at the Yorksh...

Kids to be archaeologists as new building could uncover a Roman camp

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TODAY it's home to a Leeds school with more than 1,000 students. But backtrack 2,000 years and the site of Allerton High in Moortown cou...

Medieval finds of what could be 'lost village'

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A PLOUGHED field on the outskirts of Nuneaton could be the site of the lost medieval settlement of Copston Parva. Dozens volunteered to beco...
Friday, September 29, 2006

Armring found by builder's son is bought by museum

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Pure gold... rare piece of Viking jewellery returns to the city of York ONE of the rarest pieces of Viking gold jewellery to be found in Bri...

1,600-year-old dog found in Roman well at Liss

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ARCHAEOLOGISTS digging on the site of a Roman settlement in Liss have discovered the skeleton of a dog they believe was offered as a gift to...
Thursday, September 28, 2006

Rare Iron Age settlement is about to be unearthed

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ARCHAEOLOGISTS will soon be uncovering a rare Iron Age settlement in a North Somerset village. The ancient site at Goblin Combe Environmenta...

Oxford archaeologists want to join studies on Iran's salt men

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"A group of Oxford University archaeologists has prepared a plan, asking to participate in the study, and the Center for Archaeological...
Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Neanderthal 'butcher's shop' found near Somme

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Neanderthal finds are like prehistoric buses. You wait for tens of thousands of years, and then two important revelations come along togeth...

Archaeologists excavating a Roman settlement in Liss believe they have unearthed the remains of a dog over 1,600 years after it fell down a well.

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The curious incident of the dog from the fourth century has led to a modern day investigation in a field at the village. The ill fated mutt ...

Secret Death Chamber Found in Temple of Apollo

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Underneath the Temple of Apollo in the Hierapolis located near Denizli, Turkey, archaeologists have made an astounding discovery. There is a...
Tuesday, September 26, 2006

The Croatian Apoxyomenos in Italy

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The Croatian Apoxyomenos in Italy Apoxyomenos, The Athlete of Croatia will be on view in the Medici Riccardi Palace in Florence between 30t...

THE TEXARKANA ARCHAEOLOGY BLUES

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Location: Arkansas Length: 6 min. Life as a cultural resource management (CRM) field archaeologist might not be what you expect. In th...

8,400-year old settlement unearthed in İzmir’s Ulucak tumulus

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A team of archaeologists working at the Ulucak tumulus, located in İzmir's Kemalpaşa district, have unearthed a Neolithic settlement are...

BULGARIA TRYING TO PROTECT TREASURES FROM CRIMINAL GROUPS

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Bulgarian archaeologists and criminal groups were in a race to find ancient treasures first, an article in The Guardian named Bulgaria Fight...
Monday, September 18, 2006

Fragments from a sacred landscape

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To the untrained eye it looks like a piece of rubble. For archaeologists however, this 4,000 year-old fragment is part of the one of the mos...

Money runs out for excavating oldest church

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The tourist development venture at a Christian altar found at the Megiddo Prison, considered the world’s oldest church dating to the third o...

Archaeologist gagged by power firm

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ENERGY chiefs have been accused of gagging one of Scotland's leading archaeologists after he discovered that proposed power lines would ...
Friday, September 15, 2006

National Geographic Channel Seeks The Historical Truth In SEARCH FOR NOAH′S ARK

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National Geographic Channel Investigates The Latest Clues And Competing Theories In The SEARCH FOR NOAH′S ARK "There′s an Indiana Jones...

Tolbooth found in Capital's facelift

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THE remains of Edinburgh's medieval tolbooth have been unearthed during road repairs on the Royal Mile. Historians have always known the...

That huge gap between us and the cavemen is getting smaller all the time

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The remains of a neanderthal settlement have been found on the Rock of Gibraltar, carbon-dated to just 24,000 years ago. This is 10,000 year...
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David Beard MA, FSA, FSA Scot
I am a freelance archaeologist and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland specializing in the medieval period. I have worked as a field archaeologist for the Department of Environment (Northern Ireland) and the Museum of London. I have been involved in continuing education for many years and have taught for the University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education (OUDCE) and the Universities of London, Essex, Ulster, and the London College of the University of Notre Dame, and I was the Archaeological Consultant for Southwark Cathedral. I am the author of and tutor for an OUDCE online course on the Vikings, and the Programme Director and Academic Director for the Oxford Experience Summer School.
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