1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (627+ words) An ancient Bronze Age axe believed to have been offered to the gods has been unearthed. It was found during an archaeological dig in Huttons Ambo, a village in North Yorkshire, as part of a broader excavation that also revealed…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (501+ words) Peterborough City Council says Flag Fen is a "globally significant" Bronze Age site An excavation project at a Bronze Age site could see the area removed from a register of at-risk historical locations, the government has said. Ancient remains at…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (735+ words) Children visited the museum to see scenes such as Potter's rabbit schoolroom For more than a century, visitors travelled to a quiet Sussex village to see one of Britain's strangest attractions. A museum in Bramber displayed hundreds of stuffed animals…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (950+ words) Today, Moushill Lane may appear a quiet, leafy corner of Milford, but over the past two centuries it has been home to everyone from agricultural labourers and servants to artists, engineers, writers and wealthy Victorian families, writes Helen McClure. Its…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1045+ words) It rises from the flat fields on the south bank of the Humber Estuary – a magnificent, towering building that, at first glance, resembles a castle. "We are looking at, in a nutshell, the largest and most magnificent abbey gatehouse in…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (836+ words) When it comes to prehistoric stone monuments in Britain, Stonehenge is usually the first name that comes to mind. But in Yorkshire there is another ancient monument that has raised questions among researchers for centuries. Known as “The Devil's Arrows…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (623+ words) Otley Courthouse has been named Yorkshire’s Everyday History Hero. The former courthouse won the title as part of the inaugural Everyday History Heroes awards, a national scheme celebrating the unsung stories of ordinary people and the heritage sites that bring…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (340+ words) Can stones walk? Not really. But 3 giant stones in Yorkshire, England, somehow travelled about 11 miles which means 18 kilometres before becoming part of one of Britain’s most mysterious prehistoric monuments. Scientists have now traced where the stones came from, revealing how…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (771+ words) Researchers have shed new light on a series of prehistoric stones in Yorkshire, revealing the 25-tonne structures were hauled 11 miles across land by Neolithic builders. Geological analysis showed Neolithic communities bypassed more local stone sources to bring the giant megaliths,…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (616+ words) A set of giant monoliths known as the "Devil’s Arrows" were moved 18km (11 miles) across Yorkshire by Stone Age people, new research has found. The three columns have been standing in a farmer's field in Boroughbridge for thousands of years, with…...