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Unwrapping the Galloway Hoard: Secrets of a unique Viking Age collection from south-west Scotland
Buried c.AD 900, the Galloway Hoard is thought to be Scotland's earliest-known Viking Age hoars. In the years since its discovery in 2014, wide-ranging research has illuminated its eclectic and often unique contents. As a new exhibition opens, exploring the story so far, Martin Goldberg takes us through some of...Goldberg, D Martin
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2021
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Conservation treatment of recently discovered bog bodies at the National Museum of Ireland
Bog bodies contain a wealth of information and when treated with respect and sensitivity present an opportunity for scholars and the public to come ‘face to face’ with our past. Eight bog bodies have been discovered in Ireland in the past 20 years and the conservation of three of these...Read, Anthony ; Bryan, Bethan
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2021
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Galloway Hoard: Viking-age Treasure
Dr Martin Goldberg, Principal Cuartor, Medieval Archaeology and History at National Musuems Scotland, invites us to take a closer look at a hoard of Viking-age treasures hideen for a millenniumGoldberg, D Martin
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2021
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Gunflints in Brandon: no flash in the pan
An onscure industry was once critical to British power, but collapsed after Waterloo, leaving families oiut of work and men dying of silicosis. Hugo Anderson-Whymark has been researching the extraordinary story of a craft that grew rich on guns and survived on a myth of antiquity.Anderson-Whymark, Hugo
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2021
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2021
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2021
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Review of: Martin Carver, Formative Britain: An Archaeology of Britain, Fifth to Eleventh Century AD (2019)
There are few archaeologists working in Britain today who have directed major excavations in as many corners of the island than Prof Martin Carver. His latest volume is the result of a different kind of dig: an excavation of the literature on early medieval archaeology in Britain, notes gathered from...Maldonado, Adrián
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2009
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Everything you always wanted to know about…la néolithisation de la Grande-Bretagne et de l'Irlande
In Great Britain and in Ireland, two conflicting models of neolithisation have been proposed. One, that is based on the assumption that indigenous late Mesolithic groups were in contact with Continental farmers (as in the case of the Ertebølle culture in Denmark), proposes a slow acculturation process; but there is...Pailler, Yves ; Sheridan, J A
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2011
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Before Burghead: excavations at Clarkly Hill 2011
Hunter, Fraser
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2012