Archive for April 14th, 2012
Bid to replenish wild flower meadows
Millions of wild flower seeds are to be sown through out the UK over the weekend in a bid to replenish the country’s dwindling meadows.
Secrets of the earliest Britons could be hidden in 5,000-year-old tomb
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a Neolithic portal dolmen, one of Western Europe’s oldest ritual burial chambered monuments, in an isolated field in Wales.
Viking-era ‘piggy bank’ yields silver treasure
A bronze, Viking-era “piggy-bank” containing thousands silver coins dating from the 11th century has been unearthed on the Baltic island of Gotland in what Swedish archaeologists have described as a “fantastic” treasure find.
Scientists find runes on ancient comb
Archaeologists have found the oldest engravings of letters ever to be discovered in central Germany, officials from the area announced on Thursday.
Skeletons found in Oxford could be ’10th-century Viking raiders’
Thirty-seven skeletons found in a mass burial site in the grounds of St John’s College may not be who they initially seemed, according to Oxford researchers studying the remains.
Westbury White Horse cleaning under way in Wiltshire
A team of volunteer steam cleaners are said to be making an “unbelievable” difference to a Wiltshire hillfigure.
