Thursday, June 30, 2011

Council boss under fire for “bunny huggers” attack

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A council leader has become a hate figure among archaeologists after announcing plans to relax the need for historical surveys which are ham...

Archaeological dig launched under car park

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An archaeological dig is under way at a city centre site earmarked for redevelopment. Specialists will be exploring the area under the Sawcl...

Capita consultant on Cumbrian Roman visitor centre

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Firm is lead consultant and architect on the £10.7m Roman Maryport Development Capita Symonds is the lead consultant and architect for a Rom...

No Family Plots, Just Communal Burials In Ancient Settlement

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Human remains discovered beneath the floors of mud-brick houses at one of the world's first permanent settlements, were not biologically...

Peking man differing from modern humans in brain asymmetry

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Paleoanthropologists studying the fossil endocasts of Australopithecus, Homo habilis, Homo erectus, Neanderthals, and Homo sapiens have repo...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Gloucestershire's oldest coin discovered in field

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A Roman coin more than 2,000 years old has been discovered near Huntley, and a dog walker has been puzzled by finds of iron ore in the same ...

Mildenhall: Historic silver Mildenhall Treasure to return to Suffolk

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The Great Dish is the most famous object from the Mildenhall treasure which was discovered near the town in 1942. Because of its internation...

Dinghies to cover Vikings' route from Wick to Arctic

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An adventurer is leading a group of seven on a quest to follow the Vikings' route by sea from Scotland to the Arctic Circle - in inflata...

Possible holy well discovered in Cwmbran woods

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Amateur archaeologists have uncovered what they say may be a holy well in woodland in Cwmbran, Torfaen. They were working on a dig to discov...

1,400-year-old St Paul fresco discovered in ancient Roman catacomb

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The fresco was found during restoration work at the Catacombs of San Gennaro (Saint Januarius) in the southern port city of Naples by expert...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

“Bunny-huggers” Fight Back: CBA Director in Radio 4 debate

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CBA Director Mike Heyworth last night countered Fenland Council Leader Alan Melton’s controversial arguments against planning provisions for...

Plans revealed for £11 million Roman centre in west Cumbria

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Hadrian’s Wall Heritage Ltd has submitted an application to build the world-class tourist attraction at Maryport to Allerdale Council. It ai...
Monday, June 27, 2011

Archaeologists unearth chapel secrets

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ARCHAEOLOGISTS from the Channel 4 show Time Team were back on the north Northumberland coast for a dig on an at-risk monument. St Ebba’s cha...

Butser Ancient Farm revamp is off to a flying start

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AN OUTDOOR museum and archaeology centre has won £30,000 towards refurbishments. The South Downs National Park Authority awarded the grant t...

Archaeologists follow the evolution of a French town

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For over six years French archaeologists have carried out excavations in the town of Bondy – situated close to the capital, Paris – discover...

Teams search for Bredwardine Medieval village

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Archaeologists are due to start a three-week dig in Herefordshire in search of a buried Medieval village. Herefordshire Archaeology, the cou...

Archaeologists furious over councillor's 'bunny huggers' jibe

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Tory council leader threatened to overturn principle that developers must pay for archaeological excavation Archaeologists have condemned a ...

Experts ask to exhume Shakespeare

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A team of British paleontologists have made a formal application to the Church of England to exhume the body of playwright William Shakespea...

The Beer Archaeologist

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It’s just after dawn at the Dogfish Head brewpub in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where the ambition for the morning is to resurrect an Egyptian...

Workers find ancient burial ground

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Ancient skeletal remains have been uncovered by contractors working on the largest energy project in the country. The unrecorded burial grou...