FURNESS archaeologists believe a metal detector enthusiast might have stumbled on an important Viking burial site after unearthing an ornate merchant’s weight.
When it was unearthed, a 70g weight, 42mm long piece inlaid with an ornate bronze and enamel design depicting what look like entwined mythic beasts and two men with crossed swords emerged. The pattern indicates that it dates back to between AD 1030 and AD 1130.
California parents without teaching credentials cannot legally home-school their children, according to a recent state appellate court ruling.
“Parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children,” Justice H. Walter Croskey wrote in a Feb. 28 opinion for the 2nd District Court of Appeal.Non-compliance could lead to criminal complaints against the parents, Croskey said.
Its remains are extensive and highly visible, and have been the object of constant archaeological attention since the birth of the discipline.
Nevertheless, there’s a tendency among local-patriotic amateur scholars all around the Baltic to try to argue that Birka was in fact located in their favourite spot on Earth.
Nearly a hundred Viking descendants will return to Orkney at noon on Thursday 6 March to discover the isles’ Scandinavian heritage.
In what could be the largest group visit from Scandinavia since the Viking raids in the late 700’s, the guests will be warmly greeted by a Scottish bagpiper and an Orkney Viking in full costume symbolising the countries’ joint heritage.
IT WAS custom for people to be buried fully clothed during the late 5th and early 6th century.
That is why archaeologists believe the unearthed Anglo Saxon graves in a farmer’s field in Ringlemere, Sandwich, were probably all women after the discovery of beads and brooches.
Children as young as five could be given compulsory sex education, it was revealed yesterday. The prospect emerged as ministers unveiled a review of Sex and Relationship Education in primary and secondary schools.
A panel will examine “the right age to begin teaching what the key messages are and content that young people should receive at each key stage”.
After years of insisting there is no evidence to link vaccines with the onset of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the US government has quietly conceded a vaccine-autism case in the Court of Federal Claims.
The claim, one of 4,900 autism cases currently pending in Federal “Vaccine Court,” was conceded by US Assistant Attorney General Peter Keisler and other Justice Department officials, on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services, the “defendant” in all Vaccine Court cases.
ST. AUGUSTINE, FL — Archaeologist Carl Halbirt digs in the dirt for a living.
But rarely does he have so many kids around his digs.
This week, he and the City of St. Augustine’s Archaeology Crew are uncovering loads of artifacts from the early 1600’s at St. Augustine’s Cathedral Parish School.
The students have been allowed to watch science at work in their school’s front yard on St. George Street.
A SKELETON, which has been on prominent display in Salisbury Museum for nearly a decade, could hold the secret to Stonehenge’s mysterious past and show the site to be an arena of gladiatorial combat, an archaeological expert has claimed.
The skeleton, that of a man who had been killed by arrows in 2,300 BC, was discovered in the ditch surrounding the stones during excavation work, carried out by Professor Richard Atkinson and J.G Evans in 1978.
ATHENS, Greece (March 5) - Road construction on the western Greek island of Lefkada has uncovered and partially destroyed an important tomb with artifacts dating back more than 3,000 years, officials said on Wednesday.The find is a miniature version of the large, opulent tombs built by the rulers of Greece during the Mycenaean era, which ended around 1100 B.C. Although dozens have been found in the mainland and on Crete, the underground, beehive-shaped monuments are very rare in the western Ionian Sea islands, and previously unknown on Lefkada.
