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Bluestone Henge – Stone Circle or Stone Oval? A new  digital reconstruction of the monument, discovered by the Stonehenge Riverside Project in 2009 suggests that the circle of Welsh blue stones found at the Southern terminus of the avenue may well have been oval, and not round. If this is correct, it echoes the layout of the Bluestone oval at the centre of Stonehenge. Henry Rothwell,

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CBA AGM in Truro this year - follow live blog reports from Adam Spring - http://cornwall2010.wordpress.com/

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Not so thin end of the wedge?  "Today Notts County Council have just published proposals to cut their conservation budget by 75% and to reduce their staff from 33 to 6. This will effectively mean the end of all county archaeology services in Nottinghamshire. At the moment it seems unlikely that any of the remaining 6 staff will be archaeologists." Richard Tyndall - http://goo.gl/uzZj

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Michael Wood's 'Story of England' begins tonight - it's a 'Groundbreaking series in which Michael Wood tells the story of one place throughout the whole of English history. The village is Kibworth in Leicestershire in the heart of England - a place that lived through the Black Death, the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution and was even bombed in World War Two.' Full details

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From the BBCA Saxon boat has been found during flood defence work on a Norfolk river.The boat, which is about 9.8 ft (3m) long and had been hollowed out by hand from a piece of oak, was found at the bottom of the River Ant.Five animal skulls were found near the boat, which has been taken to York for treatment to preserve it.The Environment Agency had commissioned work to take place between

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 A dwelling, thought to be 4,500 years old, has been discovered by archaeologists in Wiltshire.From the BBC.Excavation work at the prehistoric site of Marden Henge, near Devizes, started three weeks ago and experts say the find has "exceeded expectations".Marden Henge no longer has any standing stones and is said to be one of Britain's least understood ancient sites.The work is scheduled to

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Marden, Devizes, Wiltshire SN10, UK51.322861561732395 -1.871151924133300851.3195090617324 -1.8784474241333007 51.326214061732394 -1.8638564241333009tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164815727857891471.post-50037615351681565322010-07-09T11:16:00.000-07:002010-07-28T03:22:27.006-07:00

This year's most exciting dig for fans of the Neolithic Period has to be the Marden Henge 2010 excavation. English Heritage archaeologist Jim Leary (the lucky cove who got the Silbury Hill dig a couple of years ago) is opening trenches in one of Britain's lesser known super henges. This is the 3rd dig for the site - the first was a horrible mauling at the hands of Richard Colt Hoare in the 19th

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July 8th, 2010 by Anna Booth Tony Williams, Coroner for Somerset, will hold an inquest on Thursday 22nd July on one of the largest Roman coin hoards ever found in Britain, the Portable Antiquities Scheme funded by the Museums, Libraries and Archive Council and Somerset County Council has reported. Dave Crisp, found the hoard of some 52,500 coins dating to the 3rd century AD, while

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That's all folks! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/politics/10341015.stm

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If you've been following the Stonehenge Riverside Project, you can't have missed the the announcement of the discovery of a bluestone circle at the river terminus of the Avenue. To mark this discovery, Digital Digging has produced a virtual Bluestone Henge, which you can view, and interact with, using any browser. DD Click here to go to the Bluestone Henge reconstruction.

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Planning Policy Guidance 15 and 16 have now been replaced with PPS5. http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/planningandbuilding/pps5

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Doggerland is due for development. 13 turbine manufacturers are bidding for a part in a huge offshore UK wind farm project which is set to provide 32 gigawatts of clean energy. Doggerland has been selected as one potential area for construction because the bank is as little as 60ft under the surface of the sea in some places. Trawlers have frequently found mammoth teeth and tusks in

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From the BBC.  Fifty-one decapitated skeletons found in a burial pit in Dorset were those of Scandinavian Vikings, scientists say. Mystery has surrounded the identity of the group since they were discovered at Ridgeway Hill, near Weymouth, in June.Analysis of teeth from 10 of the men revealed they had grown up in countries with a colder climate than Britain's.Archaeologists from Oxford

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Digital Digging - Archaeology news, maps, video, reconstructions and content by some of Britain's leading archaeologists. Image of Josh Pollard, Mike Parker Pearson and Julian Thomas by kind permission of Adam Stanford (http://www.aerial-cam.co.uk). From Manchester.ac.uk -  The sensational discovery of a 5000 year-old “Blue Stonehenge” was made by a team led by archaeologists from

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The Telegraph reports a Bronze Age cargo found off Salcombe, Dorset. Possibly the same as the one reported in 2005 by Culture 24 with some more recently gleaned updates. DD. From the Telegraph "The trading vessel was carrying an extremely valuable cargo of tin and hundreds of copper ingots from the Continent when it sank. Experts say the "incredibly exciting" discovery provides new

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From the BBC. Archaeologists have discovered the collection of prehistoric standing stones at Stanton Drew is older than originally thought. During geophysical surveys last summer, they found the outline of a burial mound dated from nearly 1000 years before the stone circles. The surveys were carried out by Bath and Camerton Archaeological Society and the council's Archaeological Officer. It

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From the BBC. "An Iron Age treasure hoard unearthed by a metal-detecting amateur has been unveiled.The four gold Iron Age neck ornaments, or torcs, date from between the 1st and 3rd Century BC and are said to be worth an estimated £1m.They were discovered in September by "first-time" metal-detector enthusiast David Booth in a field in Stirlingshire.The find is the most important hoard of Iron Age

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From Seren Langley, CBA.Secretary of State, Ben Bradshaw, has announced a £10 million investment in English Heritage's new visitor centre at Stonehenge. The planning application for the new visitor facilities is open for public consultation until 12 November.The Government announced in May that the new Stonehenge visitor centre would be sited at Airman's Corner, 1.5 miles west of Stonehenge

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First Chance to Hear From the Experts Who Made the Discovery. From CBA Information. Archaeologists from Sheffield and other universities have discovered a lost stone circle a mile from Stonehenge, on the west bank of the River Avon.The stones were removed thousands of years ago but the sizes of the holes in which they stood indicate that this was a circle of bluestones, brought from the Preseli

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Video here.Images here. (http://www.staffordshirehoard.org.uk/)From the BBC.The UK's largest haul of Anglo-Saxon treasure has been discovered buried beneath a field in Staffordshire.Experts said the collection of 1,500 gold and silver pieces, which may date back to the 7th Century, was unparalleled in size.It has been declared treasure by South Staffordshire coroner Andrew Haigh, meaning it

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30,000 year old coloured cord found in Georgia. Two stories - one from the BBC, one from About.com.From the BBC.A Georgian cave has yielded what scientists say are the earliest examples of humans making cords.The microscopic fibres, discovered accidentally while scientists were searching for pollen samples, are around 30,000 years old.A team reports in the journal Science that ancient humans

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From the Cumberland News. The secrets of a Roman dig in Carlisle, hailed as one of the most significant in the UK with ‘world-first’ finds, are about to be fully revealed for the first time in nine years.The city’s Tullie House Museum has finally been reunited with the 80,000 artefacts uncovered during the Millennium project, and the archaeologists behind it are on the brink of publishing their

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ARCHEOLOGISTS digging at Kents Cavern have found a 15,000-year-old weapon carved from a reindeer antler. The rare sagaie, or javelin point, was crafted by a stone age inhabitant of the caves and is the only complete example of its kind found in the UK. It is being hailed by the tourist attraction as major find and a signal that further exciting artifacts could lie just below the surface. Dr Paul

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Seventies campsite in Forest of Dean excavated by Oxford archaeologist Archaeologists have turned their attention to a strange, primitive tribe whose living conditions might seem hard to imagine: it was an age of heavy green canvas, wooden tent pegs and tribal elders in baggy, khaki shorts left over from their National Service.The Seventies may be only 30 years ago but for today’s generation of

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London's oldest timber structure has been unearthed by archaeologists from Archaeology South-East (part of the Institute of Archaeology at UCL). It was found during the excavation of a prehistoric peat bog adjacent to Belmarsh Prison in Plumstead, Greenwich, in advance of the construction of a new prison building. Radiocarbon dating has shown the structure to be nearly 6,000 years old and it

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