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Volunteers Unearth 2,000-Year-Old Roundhouse in England’s Lake District
A group of volunteers working in England’s Lake District has uncovered a timber doorway, a cobbled yard and traces of ancient crops at a settlement used around 2,000 years ago. The finds offer a closer look at the people who lived and farmed in Deepdale Valley from the late Iron Age into the Roman period.…
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A 3,500-Year-Old Wooden Ladder Found at the Bottom of a Bronze Age Waterhole in England
A wooden ladder driven into the earth nearly 3,500 years ago has been discovered at the bottom of a Bronze Age waterhole in England. Found south of Gloucester, the remarkably preserved structure also contained a timber platform, woven walls and around 150 pieces of waterlogged wood. Radiocarbon dating places the structure in the Middle Bronze…
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11-Year-Old Girl Finds a 2,000-Year-Old Celtic Gold Coin Within Ten Minutes
An 11-year-old metal detectorist named Darcey made a discovery she is unlikely to forget when she uncovered a Celtic gold coin just ten minutes into a weekend rally at Cirencester, England. The small coin has been provisionally identified as a Selsey Dahlia gold quarter stater, a type generally dated to the first century BC. According…
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Lost Roman Sea Mosaic in England Survives Through One Fragment and an 18th-Century Drawing
For more than two centuries, a Roman sea mosaic discovered beneath Cirencester survived largely as an image on paper. The pavement itself disappeared beneath the changing streets of the English town, but a single fragment rescued from beneath a house in the 1980s has now returned to the Corinium Museum. The fragment does not represent…
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Dry Summer Reveals Lost Garden and Medieval Buildings Beneath England’s Lawns
Prolonged hot and dry weather across southern England has revealed the outlines of a lost garden and medieval buildings, as parch marks emerge across the lawns of several historic sites. At Blenheim Palace, Mottisfont, Greys Court and Portchester Castle, changes in the grass have exposed the footprints of a vast 18th-century formal garden, medieval monastic…