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…
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Rare Late Iron Age Ladder Discovered in Cambridgeshire Is Britain’s Longest Known Log Ladder
Archaeologists working at West Cambourne in Cambridgeshire, England, have uncovered a rare late Iron Age wooden ladder preserved in a large watering hole. The surviving…
6,000-Year-Old Neolithic Trackway Discovered Beneath Somerset Peatland
A wooden pathway laid down nearly 6,000 years ago has surfaced from the peatlands of Somerset, revealing how some of Britain’s earliest farming communities moved…
Bronze Age Farmers Reached England’s Cheviot Hills Earlier Than Thought
High in the rolling uplands of northern England, archaeologists have uncovered rare and remarkably complete evidence of Bronze Age life—evidence that is now reshaping how…
A Puzzling Feature Emerges at the Ness of Brodgar—And Archaeologists Aren’t Ready to Explain It
A site once thought thoroughly excavated may be preparing to deliver one of its most intriguing surprises. On Orkney’s Ness of Brodgar, new 3D Ground…
Wigan Archaeologists Uncover a 4,000-Year-Old Neolithic Henge and Bronze Age Cemetery
On a quiet stretch of farmland near the outskirts of Wigan, northern England, a team of volunteers have stumbled upon what could be one of…