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Tide turns on Iron Age midden treasure trove
Glasgow :: United Kingdom | about 6 hours ago
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The Iron Age midden on Skye's west coast has so far yielded bone fragments, stone tools, a button manufactured from horn and the top of a human skull...The manmade tools and fragments are already under attack from lashing waves and strong winds, with...
Tags: Historic Scotland, iron age, treasure trove, age midden, Skye, United Kingdom, Glasgow, Midden, Trepanation, Stone Age, Landfill, Archaeology
Treasure hoard goes on show
Birmingham :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
Credibility Staffordshire treasure hoard goes on show at British Museum Farmer on whose land 1,500 pieces of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver were found pays first visit to London for exhibition opening • Iron age gold treasure found in Scotland Farmer Fred Johnson inspects...
Tags: Staffordshire Hoard, Scotland, iron age, London, age gold
Oldest brain in Britain 'found'
London :: United Kingdom | 12 months ago
Credibility Archaeologists have discovered the remains of what could be the first brain of Britain, which they claim survived 2,000 years in an Iron Age skull. In fact, a team at York Archaeological Trust found the oldest surviving human brain inside a decapitated...
Tags: brain, 000-year-old brain in britain, oldest brain, scientists, scientist, York Archaeological Trust, Britain, ancient, iron age, human brain
Treasure hunters come clean on finds
Cambridge :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
Credibility British law does not exactly take a "finders keepers" view. But a scheme teaching finders and landowners of potential rewards for such discoveries, has led to a rise in the number of treasures being reported, a study revealed today. The British Museum's...
Tags: Maurice Richardson, Newark Torc, metal detector, Nottinghamshire, iron age
Ancient Turkish monument to soul found
Boston :: MA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility In a mountainous kingdom in what is now southeastern Turkey, there lived in the eighth century BC a royal official, Kuttamuwa, who oversaw the completion of an inscribed stone monument, or stele, to be erected upon his death. The words instructed mourners...
Tags: iron age
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