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New excavations at Stonehenge After a gap of some 44 years, Stonehenge is once again being excavated. These excavations were not taking place at the centre of Stonehenge, but in what is called the 'Outer Corridor', located on the right hand side of the panorama below. Andrew Selkirk reports from the site.

The Dissolution of the Monasteries: heritage in ruins

Apart from his red hair, beard, giant girth and his equally gargantuan appetite for wives, the one thing we all associate with Henry VIII is the event that the authors of 1066 and All That called, with an eye for a memorable spelling mistake, ‘the Disillusion of the Monasteries’.

Quarrendon

In the late 16th century, leading courtier Sir Henry Lee, anticipating a visit by Queen Elizabeth I, created a new garden and park on his manorial estate at Quarrendon on the edge of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire. The result was something exceptional even by the standards of that dynamic age: an artificial landscape suffused with the spirit of the English Renaissance and Reformation.

Unravelling the mysteries of Stonehenge

Theories about the date and purpose of Stonehenge are to be tested through the first excavations to be permitted inside the stone circle since 1964. Scheduled Monument Consent has been granted for a two-week excavation by Tim Darvill of Bournemouth University, and Geoff Wainwright, President of the Society of Antiquaries, which was completed on 11 April 2008.

Mary Rose : back from the deep

The Mary Rose is lifted from her sea grave in the Solent

Myths and mystery surround Henry VIII’s favourite ship, the Mary Rose. Now, a new museum, dedicated solely to this ancient vessel, will reveal her history and dispel the rumours.

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Current Archaeology
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- Roundhouses: 3000 years of prehistoric design
- Enamelled vessels from Roman Britain: Celtic art and tourist knick-knacks
- Inspired by Stonehenge: new exhibition at the Salisbury Museum
- Village, cemetery and dyke: the archaeology of a northern pipeline
World Archaeology
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- Copan: tunnelling through the myths
- Deciphering Ancient Maya: cracking that elusive code
- Sweyhat: uncovering a Mesopotamian mystery
- Laos: revealing unchartered territory in the Mekong Basin

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Calling all independent archaeologists!

The Council for Independent archaeology is holding its annual get-together at Monmouth on Saturday the 30th August, and all archaeologists are invited to attend.
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