United Kingdom Archive
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - When news about the deliberate destruction of the iconic Sycamore Gap Tree, an unmistakable landmark at Hadrian's Wall and Housesteads Fort, reached the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A pair of beautiful bracelets, now declared Roman treasure, has been discovered on the Isle of Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom. The two copper alloy
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Trevor Penny, an amateur fisherman from Oxfordshire, UK, had quite the surprise when he pulled up a rusty metal object from the River
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - During an excavation near the Holborn Viaduct in London, UK, archaeologists discovered a remarkably rare Roman funerary bed. This find, according to MOLA
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Paleontology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - About 200 million years ago, in the Late Triassic, South West England was an archipelago of small islands set in a warm sub-tropical
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - There is no lack of beautiful Anglo-Saxon artifacts found in the UK, and this particular object is of great interest to scientists who
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists participating in the National Grid’s Viking Link project report new fascinating discoveries! The Viking Link’s construction will enable the countries to share
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A centuries-old mystery may finally have been solved. Cerne Abbas Giant, the 180ft (55-meter) tall club-wielding man in Dorset, UK, has long been
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating near the village of Offord Cluny in Cambridgeshire have discovered the remains of a man who lived between AD 126–228 during
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Last year, archaeologists excavating near Northampton, UK, made an extraordinary discovery. The research team unearthed a magnificent 1,300-year-old necklace made up of at
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News
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Paleontologists have uncovered parts of a Jurassic sea creature in a quarry near Peterborough, United Kingdom. Fossil hunter Jamie Jordan unearthed as many
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A beautiful small Roman copper-alloy tortoise figurine has been recovered by a local metal detector user near Wickham Skeith, Suffolk, UK. Tortoises or
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Found in a field, near Horsham St Faith north of Norwich, UK, by a metal detectorist this beautiful seal matrix has been hailed
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Earth Changes
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Fens of eastern England, a low-lying, extremely flat landscape dominated by agricultural fields, was once a vast woodland filled with huge yew
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - When the Great Heathen Army, also known as the Great Viking Army, crossed the sea in the year 865 A.D., a new chapter
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A rare and important find has been unearthed in the Cotswold District. Glenn Manning discovered two Roman cavalry swords, along with remnants of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - When Britannia Archaeology experts started excavating near Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK, they thought it would be a short project, but they were wrong. The
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from the Canterbury Archaeological Trust (CAT) have found a spectacular statue of the Roman sea god Triton during their excavations in connection
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered a "polishing boulder" in the Valley of the Stones near Dorchester, UK. The discovery was made in the designated Area
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A historian says he has discovered several graves belonging to members of the Knights Templar at a village church in Staffordshire, UK. Historian
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The weather was not encouraging excavations of any kind. Still, a group of archaeologists and volunteers were determined to unravel the mystery of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A large Anglo-Saxon burial has been unearthed at Bicker Fen, Lincolnshire, UK. The discovery was part of Viking Link’s construction. A project team
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists knew it was a race against time, but their struggle to find the ancient structure was not in vain. A long-lost Roman
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A Roman road network that spanned Devon and Cornwall and connected significant settlements with military forts across the two counties as well as
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Exeter, UK, have made several intriguing finds this season. For the first time in 150 years, scientists have the opportunity
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Five treasure finds, including three hoards and two grave groups of Bronze Age and Roman date, were declared treasure on Tuesday 11th July 2023
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Featured Stories
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - July 15 is the feast day of St. Swithin, an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Winchester who died in 862 A.D. His name is associated with
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A metal detectorist has discovered a part of a Bronze Age twisted gold torc in a field near Mistley, on the River Stour
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The fort of Vindolanda, one of the earliest Roman garrisons, built by the Roman army in England, is one of Europe's most important Roman
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A 150-million-year-old stomach stone has been found in the UK, making it the oldest discovered fossil of its kind. Found by renowned
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeology students from Bournemouth University have discovered a Bronze Age burial site during an excavation of a prehistoric settlement in Dorset. It is
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists report a rare discovery of late Roman pewter plates, platters, bowls, and a cup that has been made in Euston, in the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Linmere, Bedfordshire, UK, have discovered 25 monumental pits in what has become a nationally important prehistoric site. The site date
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Fossils
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The first side-necked turtle ever to be found in the U.K. has been discovered by an amateur fossil collector and paleontologists at the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating at the site of the A40 Science Transit park & ride at Eynsham, Oxfordshire, UK, have made some interesting discoveries. During
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