2+ week, 1+ day ago  (1194+ words) Settlements appear to have existed on land at Crookston before the castle was even built The remains of a human settlement dating back thousands of years have been found near a castle in the south-west of Glasgow. At least five…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (837+ words) Part of People, past events and societies Romans The Romans believed in a lot of gods and made offerings to them for protection and blessing. But why so many gods? Find out below: Watch and find out why the Romans…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (681+ words) The Cave's Inn Pits site has been buried under about 30, 000 tonnes of shredded waste hidden by layers of soil A major investigation has been launched into the "sickening" large-scale dumping of waste at a protected site in Leicestershire. People near…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (665+ words) Oxford Cotswold Archaeology says Kirkby Thore has previously yielded "rare and significant" early medieval features People wanting to try their hand at archaeology are being asked to volunteer for a dig on a medieval site. Oxford Cotswold Archaeology (OCA) said…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (728+ words) Tim Hardy from the Undercliffe Cemetery Charity with Deborah Buxton from Barnardo's and gravedigger Graham Swain A long-lost gravestone dedicated to 15 children has been unearthed at Bradford's Undercliffe Cemetery. The children had all lived at the Home for Little Incurables…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (680+ words) The two children are thought to have been from a high status Anglo-Saxon family because of the items they were buried with. DNA analysis has revealed that two children buried together in an Anglo-Saxon grave at Cherington, Gloucestershire, were brother…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago  (743+ words) The network of tunnels is built into a chalk hillside A network of wartime tunnels hidden beneath an East Sussex housing estate once formed one of the Royal Navy's most secret command centres. The underground complex, known as HMS Forward,…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago  (768+ words) The pyre was probably built from stacked timbers and was about 3m by 2m (10ft by 6. 5ft) and about 1. 5m tall (5ft) Archaeologists working on one of Britain's biggest digs have been amazed to find the remains of an ancient funeral pyre. They made the discovery…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (41+ words) BBC Scotland: Rome's Final Frontier Archaeologist Dr Fraser Hunter looks back on three centuries of contact and conflict with Scotland's Roman invaders, a story of a superpower pitted against tribesmen and warlords. Scotland: Rome's Final Frontier (59 mins)...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (571+ words) The King's Bastion contains a section of Gloucester's Roman wall and a medieval defensive tower A Roman monument which lies underneath a trapdoor in a shopping centre has reopened to the public for the first time since 2019. Part of Gloucester's…...