Archaeologists in Denmark have discovered a cache of more than 100 weapons buried under the house of an Iron Age chieftain. The 1,500-year-old collection — which is big enough to equip a small ...

More information: Raymond Sauvage et al, Ritual Practice at Late Iron-Age and Viking-Age Cemeteries in Norway: The Mortuary Houses From Skeiet, Vinjeøra, Medieval Archaeology (2024). DOI: 10.1080 ...

Experts have uncovered evidence of Iron Age houses and pottery dating from around 100 BC at a major Tyneside development. Residents at the Newcastle Great Park (NGP) development are learning about ...

Such houses would have fit inside this enormous ... "If a king ruled from Sem during the Iron Age, 700 years before Harald Fairhair, traditionally considered the first king of Norway, history ...

The Iron Age in Britain started as the Bronze Age finished ... in small farmsteads with extended families. The standard house was a roundhouse, made of timber or stone with a thatch or turf ...

Over 1,500 years ago, an Iron Age community deposited over 100 lances, spears, swords, knives, arrowheads, and more across two houses on the site. Taken together, the deposit is a compelling look ...

During the Iron Age, when people lived in wooden homes heated by fires, buildings often accidentally burned. But had this been such a fire, the animals’ owners would likely have opened the ...

“There is potential for features related to a possible Iron Age multi-vallate hillfort to exist on the site with the possible hillfort located at The Manor House, Little Tew, 720 metres ...

DNA recovered from an Iron Age burial ground in southern England ... and their male partners moved in and left their homes behind. For these people, thought to be members of a Celtic tribe known ...