Tag: Maev Kennedy
Richard III: unveiling day arrives for skeleton that would be king
On Monday afternoon the people of Leicester should finally see the mortal remains of the neighbour who has provoked such intense curiosity for so long: the man from the car park, the skeleton excavated in September from the foundations of a long-demolished church, who may be revealed as Richard III, the last Plantagenet king.
Rebirth of the Viking warship that may have helped Canute conquer the seas
11th-century troop-carrier Roskilde 6 emerges from the depths of history and heads for British Museum
Staffordshire hoard site yields further 90 fragments
More gold and silver, including a gold and garnet cross, an eagle-shaped mount, and what could be a helmet cheek piece, have been churned up by ploughing in Staffordshire in the same field which three years ago yielded one of the most spectacular Anglo Saxon hauls.
Stone age nomads settled down in Merseyside, flints and timber suggest
Sefton site points to nomadic hunter-gatherer ways being given up after evidence found of 8,000-year-old permanent dwellings
Grim exhibition shows role of grave robbers in medical science
Museum of London exhibition opens this week with findings uncovered from the London Hospital's burial ground
A-bomb store and monks’ kitchen on risk list as threat to heritage grows
English Heritage update at-risk register, which is growing faster than buildings are being saved