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 ...

The houses date back between A.D. 500 and A.D ... The first structure was built in A.D. 450 to 600 during the Iron Age, which was when cremation was used as the main form of interment.

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 ...

Orbit Homes While some earlier Iron Age pottery has been unearthed at the site, the vast majority of the finds date from the Late Iron Age (perhaps 50 B.C. at the earliest) through to the mid/late ...

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 ...

their husbands joined their homes and families, and not the other way around. This further suggests Iron Age Celtic women were, perhaps, at the very heart of social networks in their communities ...

“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 ...

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 ...

It is believed Iron Age Celts lived in such circular houses, constructed with straw and mud, with a fire pit in the centre. According to the Prehistoric Society, roundhouses are characteristic of ...

A Iron Age roundhouse built at Hengistbury Head will be completed in time for summer. Hengistbury Head Visitor Centre (HHVC) has said its Iron Age roundhouse, designed to replicate one that ...