Wednesday, January 07, 2004
New planning appeals statistics revealed
It's been revealed that the Minister for the Environment, Martin Cullen, rejected nearly one third of the planning appeals which his heritage officials suggested be taken to An Bord Pleanala.
RTE News
Archaeologists make a dig for victory as success prompts a move to new unit
An Archaeology company is digging into new premises on a County Durham enterprise park to house its expanding operation.
Northern Archaeological Associates (NAA) has moved into energy-efficient units on Harmire Enterprise Park in Barnard Castle, a £1.4m scheme developed by One NorthEast and Teesdale District Council.
IC Newcastle - Northwest
There may be gold in them there ships
Underwater explorers are set to recover history's richest sunken treasure - and net the British taxpayer an unexpected windfall.
IC Newcastle - The Journal
Tuesday, January 06, 2004
Museum skeletons 'to be reburied'
The Museum of London is considering reburying its collection of 17,000 skeletons on ethical grounds.
BBC News
Monday, January 05, 2004
Heritage trail would bring history to life
PLANS to bring a town's hidden history to light will be unveiled this week.
Chester-le-Street Heritage Group, the district council and other organisations have been working for months to develop a heritage trail through the town.
The Northern Echo
Have the heritage police gone power mad?
Eighteen months after he bought Slepe Cottage, his dream home but a listed wreck of a building in a Dorset hamlet, it all got too much for Peter Burden. At the end of October, the 45-year-old father of four went home to the cottage, a former tea room, and hanged himself from a beam.
The Times
Volunteers needed for Roman festival
A MASSIVE cash injection has boosted plans to celebrate Northwich's Roman heritage with a festival.
But now volunteers are needed to help make it a success.
Brian Curzon, a retired archaeologist and museum curator, said: "This year promises to be an exciting one for anyone interested in history, archaeology, art and design or even photography, as all these skills are needed for the Northwich Community Roman Celebrations.
Northwich Guardian
TV to focus on Newport's medieval ship
A NEW BBC documentary will explore the intrigue surrounding Newport's medieval ship.
The Timewatch programme on BBC2 will examine the origins of the 560-year-old ship, discovered in the muddy banks of the Usk in July 2002, and its connections with Richard Neville, the Earl of Warwick.
This is Gwent
Sunday, January 04, 2004
Island yields its ancient secrets
SECRETS buried on Poole Harbour's Green Island are due to be uncovered on national TV in February.
Channel 4's popular archaeology exploration programme Time Team spent three days on the privately owned island in the summer.
This is Poole
Tunnelling badgers endanger Britain's trove of hidden relics
The secrets of how the ancient ancestors of modern Britons lived and died could be lost forever because the evidence is being destroyed by badgers.
Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire has harboured the mysteries of civilisations for more than 5,500 years, making it one of Europe's most treasured archaeological sites.
The Observer
Tunnelling badgers endanger Britain's trove of hidden relics
The secrets of how the ancient ancestors of modern Britons lived and died could be lost forever because the evidence is being destroyed by badgers.
Guardian Unlimited
Couple on the button
JULIE and Julian Goodman have struck gold (literally) with a new year cash bonanza of £1,400.
That's the valuation which experts from the British Museum have put on a gold button which the couple found while they were digging in their back garden.
Luton & Dunstable on Sunday
Saturday, January 03, 2004
ANCIENT REMAINS SAVED
A site which is home to archaeological remains thought to be thousands of years old has been saved. Owners of the land, between Alstone Road and Alstone Lane, which has remains dating back to the Iron Age and Roman times, are hoping to build 30 houses.
But members of Sedgemoor District Council development control committee voted against the plans, made by Alexander Holderness and Joan Dowling.
Burnham Times
DEBATE FORCED ON MUSEUM CUTS PLAN
Plans to close Gloucester Folk Museum for 42 weeks a year have been put on temporary hold.
The proposals, which would see the creation of a single museum in the city, were called in by the opposition Conservative group of councillors in a move initiated by the group's deputy leader, Coun Andrew Gravells. He was supported by four other councillors - Paul James, Martyn White, Mike Rentell and Bob Gardiner.
Thisd is Gloucestershire
The 400BC Ferrari
AN Iron Age chariot unearthed at an Edinburgh building site has been proved the oldest in Britain.
Radiocarbon tests on the wheels of the chariot, which has been described as a "Ferrari of the Iron Age", have proved it dates back to 400BC - 200 years earlier than the previous oldest British find.
Edinburgh Evening News
Friday, January 02, 2004
On the path of the ancient pathogen
DNA research laboratory
The TV sleuths on Da Vinci's Inquest and CSI have nothing on Carney Matheson and his colleagues at a unique research centre in Thunder Bay, Ont.
Cold case? Try unravelling forensic mysteries from 3,000-year-old bits of bone or an ancient tooth. How about finding the cause of death in a mummified man from the 18th century?
National Post
Ancient site hints at first US settlers
Stone-age people lived in the lands north of the Arctic Circle before the last Ice Age - much earlier than had been thought, suggests new findings.
The discovery of the site in eastern Siberia also hints that people might have moved from the Old World into the Americas at a much earlier date than believed.
New Scientist
Finds show humans were in arctic earlier
HUMANS may have inhabited the desolate and icy lands of the Arctic twice as early as previously thought, new archaeological research showed today.
Belfast Telegraph
Romans wiped out Scots tribes
THE Monty Python team famously once asked what the Romans had ever done for civilisation – and then reeled off a list of the empire's great achievements.
But along with roads, viniculture, acquaducts, and education, new research has unearthed evidence that the legions may have caused such widespread devastation in Scotland that some areas took centuries to recover.
The Herald
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