Digging into the sandy soil of northern Scotland, archaeologists unearthed a rusty metal object unlike anything they’d seen before. The item turned out to be a “rare” ancient chariot wheel and a first ...

The remains of a Late Bronze Age settlement "of considerable significance" were uncovered during the development of a new ...

The habitation area, which covers around 200 hectares, had received less attention, and many studies had interpreted the settlement as a place of ritual or seasonal character, rather than as a stable ...

Ancient England had more "bling" than historians have given it credit for. That's the conclusion archaeologists drew from a cache of more than 800 Iron Age artifacts from northeast England dating back ...

That's the conclusion archaeologists drew from a cache of more than 800 Iron Age artifacts from northeast England dating back about 2,000 years. Found in a field near Melsonby, North Yorkshire ...

The results reveal that the first establishment of a larger human population in north-eastern central Europe during the Final Palaeolithic was followed by a dramatic population decline during the last ...

"A whole series of roundhouses were built there and it's probably our best preserved Iron Age settlement ever discovered in the UK." Volunteer Steve Newman said he enjoys the camaraderie and hands ...

"A whole series of roundhouses were built there and it's probably our best preserved Iron Age settlement ever discovered in the UK." The Avalon Archaeology project began in 2015 and volunteers ...

and the use of iron objects stand out. Around 600 BCE, Kach Kouch was peacefully abandoned, perhaps due to social and economic changes. Its inhabitants likely moved to other nearby settlements. So who ...

The European Iron Age began around 800 BC and ran until the Roman conquest, which was the year AD 43 in Britain. Most people lived on farms or in small villages in homes called roundhouses, but others ...

Iron Age settlements were also discovered in Aldborough, near Boroughbridge and in Foston, near York, which was partially excavated in the 1980s. Listen to highlights from North Yorkshire on BBC ...