August 1998 index:
5 August 1998
- Stone axes and the study of Neolithic Britain
- Bristol dayschool (England) - 24 October 1998 On 24 October 1998 a dayschool celebrating the work of the Implement Petrology Committee of the South-West Federation of Museums and Art Galleries...
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- Neolithic Orkney in its European Context
- Orkney Heritage Society, Kirkwall, Orkney (Scotland) - 10 - 14 September 1998 Orkney remains one of the most exciting and important places in Europe for studying the Neolithic past in...
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- 1998 International Rock-Art Congress
- Universidade de Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro Vila Real (Portugal) - 6 - 12 September 1998 UTAD (Universidade de Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro) is the venue of the 1998 International Rock-Art...
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- Bronze-Age shield discovered in Salisbury (Cadbury Castle - England)
- The 3,000-year-old bronze shield was found last summer on a secret site near the great hill fort of Cadbury Castle, which some believe was the site of Camelot. Only 40...
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- 3,300-year-old Log-Boat recovered (Shardlow - England)
- Archaeologists have recovered a log-boat, probably dating from the middle Bronze Age (circa 1300 BC), still carrying some of its cargo of quarried stone. The ten metre long oak boat...
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- The oldest astronomical megalith alignment (Nabta - Egypt)
- An assembly of huge stone slabs found in Egypt's Sahara Desert that date from about 6,500 years to 6,000 years ago has been confirmed by scientists to be the oldest...
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- A tunnel for Stonehenge
- The setting and presentation of Stonehenge will probably improve with a series of improvements to the A303 trunk road as part of the English Government's Roads Review. Every day 21,000...
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- Excavations at Cranit (Orkney - Scotland)
- In April this year a tractor broke through the roof of a stone built chamber under a field at Crantit Farm in Orkney, uncovering an apparently undisturbed Neolithic tomb. The...
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- Two Irish henges larger than Stonehenge (Limerick - Ireland)
- Irish archaeologists have identified two prehistoric henge enclosures larger than Stonehenge and possibly as old. They also believe that site, just south of Limerick City, may be the lost location...
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- Broch discovered at the Scatness dig (Shetland - Scotland)
- Archaeologists working on the Scatness excavation at the southern tip of Shetland mainland have identified the remains of an Iron Age fortress nearby. Artefacts thought to date from at least...
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- The oldest tomb in Western Europe (Carrowmore - Ireland)
- Swedish archaeologists have identified the oldest tomb in Western Europe. The discovery at Carrowmore, Co. Sligo in Ireland, is being met with a mixture of excitement and scepticism by prehistorians....
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- 3,000-year-old boat is being brought back home (Dover - England)
- After a programme of painstaking recovery and conservation, a 3,000-year-old boat is being brought back from Portsmouth ready for reassembly on a specially- created cradle in a new gallery between...
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- Consultation on proposed UK World Heritage sites
- A consultation on the UK sites to be nominated to UNESCO for World Heritage Site status over the next five to ten years was launched by Culture Secretary Chris Smith....
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