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September 29, 2011 0 Comments

Bodleian Library shows off treasures, from Magna Carta to Shakespeare

Oxford library to ask exhibition visitors which items deserve permanent display – including a First Folio it once threw away

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September 29, 2011 0 Comments

Roman coin jar the Frome Hoard to feature in new exhibition

The container will display in Taunton Castle’s revamped Somerset County Museum which acquired it for £320,000

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September 19, 2011 0 Comments

Roman baths discovered under Thameslink site in Southwark

Archaologists find ruins of cold plunge bath and hypocaust heating system in south London near the river Thames

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August 18, 2011 0 Comments

Black Death study lets rats off the hook

Plague of 1348-49 spread so fast in London the carriers had to be humans not black rats, says archaeologist

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July 14, 2011 0 Comments

British Library seeks £9m to buy oldest book in Europe

Library launches appeal to purchase 7th-century Cuthbert Gospel, which it has had on loan since 1979

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July 13, 2011 0 Comments

Tooth filing was a worldwide craze among Viking men

Teeth with neat parallel grooves have been found in Viking graves in Sweden, Denmark and England, and farther afield

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July 11, 2011 2 Comments

Roman town of Venta Icenorum site bought for public ownership

Unusual move with English Heritage, National Heritage Memorial Fund and other money helps to preserve buried archaeological site in Norfolk

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July 5, 2011 0 Comments

Incisor raiding: Viking marauders had patterns filed into their teeth

Archaeologists say filed patterns in teeth of Viking warriors found in mass grave in Dorset may have been to frighten opponents

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June 30, 2011 0 Comments

British Museum remains UK’s top attraction for fourth year running

Amid celebrations, staff are having to clean kiss marks off the display cases of museum’s latest heavenly exhibition

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June 29, 2011 0 Comments

Archaeologists furious over councillor’s ‘bunny huggers’ jibe

Tory council leader threatened to overturn principle that developers must pay for archaeological excavation

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June 21, 2011 0 Comments

Badge dug up in field is medieval treasure

Scrap of twisted silver found by metal detector in Lancashire will be part of British Museum’s exhibition of reliquaries

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June 15, 2011 0 Comments

Shock and awe: Nijmegen helmet gives Carlisle museum a boost

Tullie House – which missed out on Crosby Garrett helmet – says saga has helped secure display items

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June 10, 2011 0 Comments

Archaeology dating technique uncovers ‘property boom’ of 3700 BC

English monuments, including Maiden Castle and Windmill Hill, found to have been built, used and abandoned in single lifetime

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May 31, 2011 0 Comments

Marlborough mound mystery solved – after 4,400 years

Hill in Wiltshire school grounds nicknamed Silbury’s little sister revealed as important neolithic monument

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May 29, 2011 0 Comments

Are these the 100 places that made Britain?

Castles, cathedrals and the Cavern Club: historians make their choices of key sites in Britain’s past for book

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May 26, 2011 0 Comments

Warriors wielding metal detectors redraw ancient maps of England

Treasure and artefacts found by amateurs have changed the understanding of how the country was invaded and settled

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May 22, 2011 1 Comment

London parish’s descent from glamour to grime charted in exhibition

Archaeological finds in St Giles on show at London gallery give insight into the lives of the infamous Rookery slum dwellers, once the capital’s most notorious slum

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April 29, 2011 0 Comments

Historian weeps at groundbreaking Alexander the Great exhibition

Robin Lane Fox calls Oxford show of artefacts dug from ancient capital ‘the greatest day of classical exhibitions in my lifetime’

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April 29, 2011 0 Comments

Somerset and Edinburgh Museums to keep archaeological treasure

Roman Coins and Iron Age Torcs are acquired by the two museums with the help of national grants and charitable donations