Irish Archaeologists ask the People to find their lost Noble!
An archaeological site in Co Meath has been relying on the public for its dig outs, and has created a community-led heritage project in the process the Irish Times reports. Now, an Irish team of...
View ArticleViking Archaeology returns after a decade to the Isle of Anglesey
After a gap of more than a decade, a team of archaeologists has returned to excavate at Llanbedrgoch, Anglesey investigating the first firm evidence of Viking settlement in North Wales reported the...
View ArticleWales History Month Starts Today
Today, WalesOnline, in association with Cadw, launches Welsh History Month. Every day for the next four weeks, leading academics and historians from History Research Wales will ask, what is the most...
View ArticleWelsh History Month: St Derfel and the Stag – icon or idol?
Welsh History Month continues on the Wales Online website by asking what is the most important object in Welsh history? Today Dr Madeleine Gray, from the University of South Wales, argues the case for...
View ArticleWelsh History Month continues with a Roman Brooch changing lives!
Cadw’s Community Archaeologist, Caroline Pudney, tells how a Roman brooch can change lives in our latest essay from Wales Online's Welsh History Month series.
View ArticleIrish Viking trade centre unearthed
One of the Vikings’ most important trading centres has been discovered in Ireland. The settlement at Woodstown in County Waterford is estimated to be about 1,200 years old. It was discovered during...
View ArticleProfessor Parker Pearson rewrites the history of Stonehenge
Professor Mike Parker Pearson (UCL Institute of Archaeology) has led a team of archaeologists who are rewriting the history of Stonehenge.
View ArticleDid King Arthur Really Exist?
For nearly a thousand years, people have been inspired and entertained by stories, poems, songs, paintings and tapestries about King Arthur, who has become the subject of one of the largest bodies of...
View ArticleHadrian’s Wall had an older and bigger Scottish brother to hold back the...
Archeologists’s 10 year study uncovers 120 mile defence system built in AD 70′s to keep out the Northern Tribes reports the Daily Mail. It is the largest monument from the ancient era in northern...
View ArticleEver wondered whether the Celts played Flutes?
Bird bone flute from the Geißenklösterle Pic: Science Fair Chances are – they probably did as new discoveries and research reveal. Science Fairreports that flutes go back at least 42,000 years, longer...
View ArticleAmerican Stonehenge: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse
The strangest monument in America looms over a barren knoll in northeastern Georgia writes Randall Sullivan from Wired.com. Five massive slabs of polished granite rise out of the earth in a star...
View ArticleWas the Henge at Lismullin dedicated to Lugh?
Anne Connon (Ohio Dominican University) writes in the Celtic Studies Association of North America Annual for 2013 that the henge at Lismullin, County Meath may be an Iron Age Temple dedicated to Lugh.
View Article‘Cá bhfuil tú, a Phádraig?’– Save Tara for the Young Irish
He/she says that on Tuesday last (the 15th December 2009), the Pat Kenny radio show on RTE covered children's books written in the Irish language on the "battle to save tara".
View ArticleCeltic Log Boat carved by volunteers at Brownsea Island
The National Trust has built a replica of an Iron Age log boat found in waters near Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour reports the BBC. The original boat, discovered in 1964, was preserved using sugar...
View ArticleSacrifice or punishment? What caused the death of the Bog People?
These are the "bog bodies." The individual bog bodies show a great degree of variation in their state of preservation, from skeletons, to well-preserved complete bodies, to isolated heads and limbs....
View ArticleIron Age Horse found in Norfolk
Pic: EDP24 A tiny decorated horse and an ancient pathway made from seashells are among the discoveries which have given historians an insight into centuries of life in a west Norfolk village....
View ArticleIreland: Mythical, Magical, Mystical – A Guide to Hidden Ireland by Christy...
For those who love the Emerald Isle as much as we do, sometimes it is a real pleasure to see a book such as this that explores the Mythical and Magical side of the Land through the artistic medium of...
View ArticleMore treasure from the Fens! Eight new bronze age boats have been discovered!
A fleet of eight prehistoric boats, including one almost nine metres long, has been discovered in a Cambridgeshire quarry on the outskirts of Peterborough. The vessels, all deliberately sunk more than...
View ArticleWhat are the actual facts about King Arthur? by Guest blogger Tim Lazaro
The myth of King Arthur, as a legendary figure, is, by and large, a mystery to historians and folklorists alike. There are several figures in early British history who correspond to later folktales and...
View ArticleWork is now underway to close the A344 running beside Stonehenge
In June of 2013, the BBC announced that the A344, a main road that runs alongside Stonehenge, had been closed and that it will now be dug up and grassed over.
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