19+ hour, 13+ min ago   (373+ words) National Trust staff have found fossils in a dry stonewall in Staffordshire that date back 340 million years. The fossilized remains of two sea creatures called goniatites were found in the White Peak - but the National Trust does not want to…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (620+ words) An "eye-catching" pair of conjoined Roman gold rings - as well as nearly 100 pieces of marble - have been discovered during excavation work in Britain's oldest recorded city. Archaeologists working in Colchester also uncovered a large fragment of Roman flue tile, used…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (558+ words) Across North Africa, the Amazigh people have been coming together to usher in the year 2976. They have, unfortunately, not cracked time travel. Rather, they are almost a thousand years ahead of much of the world because they follow a calendar…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (427+ words) Artefacts unearthed during the construction of a major new road in Leeds have been revealed for the first time. A prehistoric arrowhead, a Bronze Age axe and a 300-year-old pair of nutcrackers were among the thousands of items dug up…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (663+ words) A "princely" grave of a horse buried alongside two people has been discovered by archaeologists working on one of Britain's biggest digs. The excavation is being carried out by Oxford Cotswold Archaeology (OCA) ahead of the building of the Sizewell…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (425+ words) It is a locally treasured monument that sits among sweeping chalk grassland hills " and can be seen from miles around. But the Grade II listed Lansdowne Monument on Cherhill Downs, Wiltshire, has been partially obscured by hoarding and netting for…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (338+ words) Pottery linked to the transatlantic slave trade has been discovered during building works at a Liverpool dock. Fragments of sugar moulds - used in the processing of raw sugar into sugar loaves - have been found in the quaysides of Canning Dock....

5+ day, 16+ min ago   (155+ words) Two whole crucibles have been revealed in a river in Cornwall following Storm Goretti. Andy Matthews, from Chacewater, found the vessels, which were used for smelting tin and copper, on the river bed at Calenick, near Truro, on Saturday morning....

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1004+ words) Archaeologists have discovered the largest Roman villa ever found in Wales in an "amazing discovery" which they say has the potential to be "Port Talbot's Pompeii". "My eyes nearly popped out of my skull," said project lead Dr Alex Langlands,…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1004+ words) Archaeologists have discovered the largest Roman villa ever found in Wales in an "amazing discovery" which they say has the potential to be "Port Talbot's Pompeii". "My eyes nearly popped out of my skull," said project lead Dr Alex Langlands,…...