Enormous Storegga Tsunami Wiped Out Communities In Stone Age Britain
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Stone Age people must have been surprised and horrified when the gigantic water waves reaching 20 meters wiped out their dwellings. Some of the waves reached 20 meters, and few could survive. According to scientists, the enormous tsunami that hit Northern Europe and Britain wiped out many Stone Age communities […]
Ancient Coin Reveals Name Of Unknown British Iron Age King – Who Was ‘Esunertos’?
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A metal detectorist has made an extraordinary discovery that re-writes the history of ancient Britain. In March this year, after receiving permission from the owner, Lewis Fudge was investigating a field in the Test Valley, Hampshire, UK. Fudge discovered an ancient gold coin that is smaller than a fingernail and […]
Reconstructed Roman Gateway Tells The Story Of Britain’s Invasion
AncientPages.com – Visitors to Richborough Roman fort near Sandwich in east Kent will now find a major new addition to the site: a reconstructed Roman fort gateway in timber, flanked by stretches of an earthwork rampart. The gate has been built on the site of an actual Roman gateway, thought to date to the invasion of Britain in […]
Multiple Species Of Semi-Aquatic Dinosaur May Have Roamed Pre-Historic Britain
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Palaeontologists at the University of Southampton (UK) studying a British dinosaur tooth have concluded that several distinct groups of spinosaurs — dinosaurs with fearsome crocodile-like skulls — inhabited southern England over 100 million years ago. The team, from the University’s EvoPalaeoLab, carried out a series of tests on the 140 […]
Surprising Discovery Of Oldest Decoratively Carved Wood In Britain
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – It was a chance discovery. The piece of wood could have easily gone onto the bonfire or been treated as trash. Luckily, Derek Fawcett, landowner, and retired urological surgeon, decided to take a closer look at the wood. The Boxford Timber discovered in Berkshire. At more than 6,000 years old, […]
DNA From 4,000-Year-Old Plague Discovered – The Oldest Cases To Date In Britain
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Researchers at the Francis Crick Insтιтute have identified three 4,000-year-old British cases of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria causing the plague—the oldest evidence of the plague in Britain to date, reported in a paper published in Nature Communications. Working with the University of Oxford, the Levens Local History Group and the Wells […]
Colchester Vase Offers ‘Startling’ Evidence Of Gladiator Fights In Roman Britain
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The latest analysis of the ancient Colchester vase offers evidence that gladiator fights took place in Britain in the late second century A.D. Found in Colchester in 1853, the 23cm-high (9in) vessel, made around AD 160-200, is described as “one of the most important, and perhaps famous, pots from Roman […]
11,000-Year-Old Human Remains Found At Heaning Wood Bone Cave In Britain
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An international team led by archaeologists at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has discovered the earliest human remains ever found in northern Britain. Human bone and a periwinkle shell bead unearthed at Heaning Wood Bone Cave have been analyzed and dated at around 11,000 years old. Martin Stables. Credit: […]
Archaeological Discovery Of Once-In-A-Lifetime Medieval Gold Necklace In Britain
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating near Northampton, UK, have found a magnificent 1,300-year-old necklace made up of at least 30 pendants and beads made of Roman coins, gold, garnets, glᴀss, and semi-precious stones. Scientists say it’s a “once-in-a-lifetime” gold necklace that was “internationally important.” According to experts, the exceptional necklace is the “richest […]
DNA Research Shows Ancient Britain Was More Diverse Than We Imagined
AncientPages.com – When you imagine life for ordinary people in ancient Britain, you’d be forgiven for picturing quaint villages where everyone looked and spoke the same way. But a recent study could change the way historians think about early medieval communities. Most of what we know about English history after the fall of the Roman Empire is limited to archaeological […]