The BBC reports that achaeologists who uncovered the remains of the Waun Mawn site in Pembrokeshire’s Preseli Hills, believe the stones could have been dismantled and rebuilt 150 miles (240 km) away on Salisbury Plain, […]
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Sidestone Press has published STONEHENGE FOR THE ANCESTORS: PART 1: Landscape and Monuments by Mike Parker Pearson, Joshua Pollard, Colin Richards, Julian Thomas, Chris Tilley and Kate Welham. Stonehenge For The Ancestors is published as […]
The proposed A303 Stonehenge tunnel project has been approved by the UK the Secretary State for Transport. The road will see a new section of dual carriageway added to the Wiltshire road between Amesbury and […]
Wessex Archaeology Limited has won a £35 million contract for archaeological protection and excavation work ahead of the A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down (Stonehenge ) upgrade. The contract has been awarded now to enable Wessex […]
The burial, on a hilltop site near Marlow with views over the surrounding Thames valley, must be of 6th century AD, archaeologists from the University of Reading believe. The ‘Marlow Warlord’ was a commanding, six-foot-tall […]
Wessex Archaeology have posted an interesting news article “Salisbury Sites: 40 years of Wessex Archaeology excavations”. “Since 1980, when an embryonic Wessex Archaeology was formed, archaeologists have been recovering information about Salisbury. Not much is […]
A new study, carried out by acoustics engineers from the University of Salford in Greater Manchester suggests that Stonehenge was built to amplify sound. In the first modelling of Stonehenge of its kind, the University […]
UK Culture Minister Caroline Dinenage has placed a temporary export bar on a panel of mosaic from a Roman villa at Dewlish, Dorset, excavated by WG Putman between 1969-1979. The mosaic is currently in a […]