It also offers a glimpse into an archaeological dig which is taking place in the Aspull area. The project, called the Aspull Ring Ditch, which is being run by Wigan Archaeological Society, looks into ...

Father-Son Detectorists Stumble on 14 Bronze Age Axe Heads, Describe the Experience as 'Unreal' A 52-year-old man from Dorchester took his son for metal detecting at a field in the area.

This axe head was found by a friend of mine on the ... It underlines to me that, however different our society may be from the bronze age, as people we remain fundamentally the same ...

In southern Great Britain, archaeologists have discovered an intriguing phenomenon: metal objects from the Bronze Age found in much more recent contexts within the same era. These artifacts, known as ...

An ancient ancestor of the pathogen that would later cause the Black Death and other major pandemics has been identified in a Bronze Age domestic sheep in Russia – making it one of the oldest ...

BRONZE AGE BOY:That’s magic dad. BRONZE AGE FATHER:A bronze axe head. That’s real magic. NARRATOR:Its 4,000 years ago and new people have arrived in Britain bringing lots of new ideas with them.

A metal detectorist has told a treasure inquest how finding a hoard of Bronze Age axe heads in a field was a once in a lifetime discovery. Ken Livingstone was metal detecting pasture land in the ...