2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (821+ words) A terrace project in Rebild uncovered about 18.5 kilograms of Viking-Age silver. The objects show how wealth moved, was measured and was hidden in tenth-century Denmark. A new terrace was supposed to change a garden. Instead, a few minutes of digging…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (555+ words) A stone can be millions of years older than the monument built from it. Measuring when its minerals formed therefore cannot, on its own, reveal when people dragged it into place. To date a stone circle, archaeologists usually reconstruct the…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (448+ words) Prehistoric builders moved the enormous stones of the Devil’s Arrows at least 18 kilometres across Yorkshire, according to new research that identifies where the blocks came from. The finding connects Britain’s tallest surviving prehistoric stone row with Brimham Rocks, rather than…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (764+ words) What is a megalith? The word comes from Greek roots meaning “large stone,” and archaeologists use it for monuments built with large stones or substantial stone settings. That definition is broad on purpose. A standing stone, a chambered tomb, a…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (653+ words) Fragments of clothing have survived inside an eighth-century Viking woman’s grave in western Denmark, giving archaeologists a rare chance to study what she wore. The pieces were found attached to two concave "scoop" brooches from a burial at Skonager, near…...

4+ week, 21+ hour ago   (687+ words) The outline of a Neolithic monument can disappear long before the site stops carrying information. At Sizewell on the Suffolk coast, archaeologists found a large rectangular enclosure whose ditches had faded into the soil. They used excavation and a technique…...