News Round Up

CAERNARFON, WALES—According to a report in the North Wales Chronicle, a construction project has uncovered a section of town wall built around Caernarfon Castle in 1283 by King Edward I, who conquered Wales when Llywelyn the Last, the last sovereign…

London Transport Museum takes a look back at its origins and collection for its 40th anniversary London Transport Museum celebrates its 40th anniversary this month. To mark this important milestone, here’s a look back at the history of the…

Scarborough Museums Trust holds a fantastic collection of posters promoting the seaside town dating from the Edwardian period, through the acknowledged heyday of the railway poster in the 1920s and 1930s and onwards to the post-war period and their…

Nostell Priory’s Dolls’ House is a rare survivor from the eighteenth century, and it’s just as posh as the house itself… Nostell Priory in Yorkshire is rightly regarded as one of the greatest treasure houses of the north of England. Surrounded by…

Judith Hewitt, Museum Manager at the Devil’s Porridge Museum on the fascinating autograph books kept by the young women who worked in the local munitions factory, HM Factory Gretna, during the First World War “God made the bees The bees made the…

We return to The Box in Plymouth to see how the remarkable collection of restored ships’ figureheads are looking in the atrium of the city’s new arts centre and museum The tradition of ships’ figureheads is said to stretch back millennia to the…

The clothes worn by archaeologists on site provide a vivid record not only of how the discipline has evolved over time, but of the personal experiences of people working in this field. An exhibition currently running at National Trust Sutton Hoo…

EL ASINTAL, GUATEMALA—France24 reports that a stela discovered in September of 2018 at the Tak’alik Ab’aj Archaeological Park in western Guatemala has provided new insights into the development of early Mayan writing. Researchers are still in the…

EL ASINTAL, GUATEMALA—France24 reports that a stela discovered in September of 2018 at the Tak’alik Ab’aj Archaeological Park in western Guatemala has provided new insights into the development of early Mayan writing. Researchers are still in the…

DUBLIN, IRELAND—According to an RTÉ News report, ongoing excavations on Ship Street next to Dublin Castle have revealed centuries of the city's history, including additional remains of a previously discovered early Viking settlement. Archaeologists…

BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND—BBC News reports that excavation at a former train station in central Birmingham ahead of a high-speed rail project has unearthed the remains of a railway turntable dating to 1837. A machine used by railway workers to turn the…

Birch bark tar (manufactured by the heating of bark in airtight conditions) has long been prized for its sticky, water resistant, and biocidal properties. Throughout human history it has seen a wide range of uses, including as a sealant (for example…

LEIOA, SPAIN—A new study of Paleolithic artwork recently discovered in the Basque Country suggests the region had its own so-called Iberian style that was distinct from what is known as the French/Continental style, according to a Haaretz report. In…

ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN—CNN reports that a team of scientists led by Brian Stewart of the University of Michigan analyzed levels of strontium isotopes in 30,000-year-old ostrich eggshell beads recovered from southern Africa’s Lesotho highlands, and…

Excavations in Claypath, Durham, have uncovered the remains of what has been dubbed the city’s ‘earliest recorded resident’. The post Durham City’s ‘earliest inhabitant’ identified appeared first on Current Archaeology.

CHEORWON, SOUTH KOREA—The Korea Times reports that the remains of another four soldiers killed during the fourth battle on Arrowhead Ridge, which took place just two weeks before a Korean War truce was signed on July 27, 1953, have been identified…

LIBREVILLE, GABON—According to an AFP report, the remains of some 30 people dated to the fourteenth century A.D. have been discovered in a cave in southeastern Gabon by a team of researchers led by French archaeologist Richard Oslisly. Acidic soils…

HOBART, TASMANIA—According to an ABC News Australia report, archaeologist Eleanor Casella of the University of Tasmania and a team of researchers have found ceramics, tableware, bottles, bones, and tools at the site of the former Picton Road Station…

MOFFAT, SCOTLAND—BBC News reports that a World War II-era bunker was found by Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) survey technician Kit Rodger in southern Scotland’s Craigielands Forest. The bunker, which was missing from official records, measures 23…

A complex of Roman buildings has been uncovered on a slope overlooking the Gwent Levels at Llanwern, near Newport in South Wales. Excavations by Cotswold Archaeology identified evidence of occupation on the site that appears to date from the 2nd to…