Tuesday, 24 April 2012

Lancaster City Museum 'ideal place' for Silverdale hoard

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  The hoard was declared treasure and is currently being valued A Lancashire museum would be an "ideal place" fo...
Wednesday, 18 April 2012

Funds needed to keep Viking hoard in South Cumbria

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  The hoard of Viking silver coins and artefacts is valued at £49,500 A fundraising appeal is under way to keep a Viking tr...
Sunday, 15 April 2012

Scientists find runes on ancient comb

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Archaeologists have found the oldest engravings of letters ever to be discovered in central Germany, officials from the area announ...
Friday, 13 April 2012

Skeletons found at mass burial site in Oxford could be ’10th-century Viking raiders’

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Thirty-seven skeletons found in a mass burial site in the grounds of St John’s College in Oxford may not be who they initially seemed...

Ancient coins offer clues about medieval society

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Norway’s economic system in the Middle Ages was more sophisticated than previously thought. Keywords: Archaeology , The...
Wednesday, 11 April 2012

Viking-era 'piggy bank' yields silver treasure

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A bronze, Viking -era "piggy-bank" containing thousands silver coins dating from the 11th century has been unearthed on the Balti...
Monday, 26 March 2012

Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers - Online Course

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University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education Mon 14 May to Fri 27 Jul 2012 Ravagers, despoilers, pagans, heathens - t...
Thursday, 22 March 2012

Viking Invaders Brought Armies of Mice

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Vikings who conquered new lands unwittingly brought with them another sort of invader, a new DNA study says—mice. Scientists studyi...
Wednesday, 21 March 2012

Norway's pilgrim trail

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Reaching into its medieval past, Norway has revived an old pilgrim path as a challenging long-distance walking trail with possible spirit...

Vikings 'carried mice to colonies'‎

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Mice hitched a ride with Vikings to mount their own invasions in the 10th century, research has shown. A genetic study shows that V...
Tuesday, 20 March 2012

Unique pagan temple unearthed in Norway

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A fascinating discovery is shedding light upon pre-Christian Scandinavian religion and early Christian inroads into Norway. In the Norweg...

Pre-Christian Temple Discovered in Norway

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Excavations for house foundations at Ranheim, Norway, have uncovered a small "gudehovet" or "god temple," a structure...

The Viking Journey of mice and men

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New research carried out at the University of York and published in  BMC Evolutionary Biology  has used evolutionary techniques on modern...
Friday, 16 March 2012

New TV drama – “Vikings” – to be filmed in Ireland and Northern Europe

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The History Channel in the US and History Television in Canada have announced they will be airing a scripted drama series, Vikings . Th...
Thursday, 15 March 2012

Professor Ray Page (1924 - 2012)

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The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic is sad to announce the death on 10 March 2012 of Professor Raymond Page, Emeritus Elring...

New viking village discovered

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Norwegian archeologists have discovered the foundations of at least 15 buildings, an 80-meter long street and a harbour near Gokstadhau...
Wednesday, 14 March 2012

New Norway Viking settlement discovered

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Experts have found a hitherto unknown Viking area with the aid of modern science and no shovels, reports say. Gokstad's grave moun...
Thursday, 8 March 2012

Scots and English universities to share Viking knowledge

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Scottish and English universities are to work together in an effort to expand knowledge of Viking culture. The University of the High...
Sunday, 26 February 2012

Unique runestone included in UNESCO list

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A unique runestone that is the first to mention Norway as a country and that documents the establishment of Christianity there, has bee...

Norse settlement may help us adapt to global changes

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limate scientists have been examining the past environments and archaeological remains of Norse Greenland, Iceland and North Atlantic Is...
Wednesday, 15 February 2012

Well-Red Vikings sail in for festival

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YORK’S annual Viking invasion has created a combination between Norse history and a traditional fairy story. A key event in this yea...
Monday, 13 February 2012

Roar talent at Viking festival

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THE annual Jorvik Viking Festival swung into action with a skirmish in York city centre. Viking characters wearing battle attire to...
Friday, 10 February 2012

Time Team: Mary-Ann Ochota quits Channel 4 archaeological show

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Time Team has been thrown into disarray after Mary-Ann Ochota became the second presenter to leave the Channel 4 archaeological progra...
Thursday, 9 February 2012

Reply to my complaint to Channel 4 concerning Time Team Changes

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As expected, a wishy-washy response - but the more people who write in, the better! "Dear Mr Beard, Thank you for contacting Chann...
Wednesday, 8 February 2012

Mick Aston quits Time Team after producers hire former model co-presenter

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Mick Aston, the archeologist, has quit Time Team after producers hired a former model as the programme’s co-presenter.  The 65-year-...
Monday, 6 February 2012

Viking barley in Greenland

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T he Vikings are both famous and notorious for their liking of beer and mead and archaeologists have discussed for years whether Eric th...

Viking axe find in Slimbridge discounted by archaeologists

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An axe head found in a garden in Gloucestershire, which was claimed to be of Viking origin, is an 18th Century woodworking tool, expert...
Thursday, 2 February 2012

Wirral’s history from the Bronze Age to the Vikings to be laid bare at lecture

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KEEN historians can learn more about the latest local archaeological excavations in Wirral at a talk being held next week. The Fri...

Viking axe head discovery is 'evidence of battle'

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  Archaeologists think the axe head could be evidence of a battle in 894 AD   A Viking axe head found in a Gloucestershire villa...
Sunday, 29 January 2012

Vikings Explore Hudson Bay

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Viking exploration of Hudson Bay will continue in 2013 when descendants of the first Viking voyagers to reach North America 1,000 years...

Evidence suggests Vikings grew grain in south Greenland

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Archaeologists from the Danish national museum have finally succeeded in confirming that Erik the Red and his people could indeed brew ...
Friday, 27 January 2012

Archaeology Courses at the Oxford Experience 2012

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The Oxford Experience Summer School 1 July to 11 August 2012 The 2012 Oxford Experience Programme is now online. The Oxfor...
Thursday, 26 January 2012

Mass grave belonged to Viking mercenaries

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The burial site, containing the bodies of 54 young men, was unearthed at Ridgeway Hill near Weymouth in 2009 ahead of the construction ...

The Viking death squads who got a taste of their own medicine: Mass grave shows how the Anglo-Saxons hit back at invaders

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A mass grave found in Dorset contains the bodies of an elite ‘hit squad’ of invading Viking warriors, experts claim.  All decapitated an...

Viking mass grave linked to elite killers of the medieval world

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A crew of Viking mercenaries – some of the fiercest and most feared killers in the medieval world – could be the occupants of a mysterious...

Skeletons found in Dorset mass grave 'were mercenaries'

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A mass grave in Dorset containing 54 decapitated skeletons was a burial ground for violent Viking mercenaries, according to a Cambridge ...
Wednesday, 25 January 2012

Archaeologists dig spot where hoard was found

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ARCHAEOLOGISTS have examined the secret Furness site where a hoard of silver Viking booty was unearthed by a metal detectorist.  In Ea...

Outreach and widening participation

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Applications are now open for our annual Sutton Trust Summer School in Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, which will take place on 13th-17th...
Monday, 23 January 2012

Researchers collect DNA from men with possible links to York’s Viking past

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MEN with Viking surnames filled the meeting room of New Earswick Folk Hall and queued to help research into the ethnic origins of the Bri...

Viking king discovery claims

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AN amateur historian from Yorkshire claims to have discovered a new Viking king of York. Musician and poet Damian Bullen has develop...
Monday, 9 January 2012

Archaeologists hunt for Viking heritage in Sherwood Forest

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The land surrounding a mysterious ancient monument in Sherwood Forest is to be researched after a local history group received a £50,00...
Tuesday, 20 December 2011

Was St Edmund killed by the Vikings in Essex?

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The story of Edmund, king and martyr, has become a kind of foundation myth for the county of Suffolk, but contains at least one element o...

Mysterious Viking-era Graves Found With Treasure

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Sword at his side, the so-called Young Warrior (left) is among the thousand-year-old discoveries in a newfound cemetery in Poland , a new ...
Monday, 19 December 2011

Silverdale Viking Hoard stars in Treasure and Portable Antiquities Scheme reports

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The British Museum is delighted with the continuing success of the Treasure Act and the Portable Antiquities Scheme, and they have every r...
Saturday, 17 December 2011

University of Oxford Online Archaeology Courses

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Enrolment is now open for the following University of Oxford online courses in archaeology: Archaeology of the Bible Lands (Online) Explorin...

Silverdale silver Viking hoard declared treasure

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A hoard of Viking silver found in Lancashire has been declared as treasure by a coroner. The hoard of 201 coins and pieces of jewelle...
Friday, 16 December 2011

Researchers puzzled as grave did not hold remains of medieval Swedish king

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Earlier this year, researchers in Sweden excavated what they believe was the tomb of King Magnus Ladulås (1240-1290) at Riddarholmen Ch...

Viking Hoard discovered in England

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In what is being described as a “very exciting find” over 200 items dating back to around the year 900 have been discovered near Silverda...
Thursday, 15 December 2011

Evidence for unknown Viking king Airdeconut found in Lancashire

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201-piece silver hoard from AD900 discovered by a metal detectorist in Silverdale, Lancashire Evidence of a previously unknown Viking ki...
Wednesday, 14 December 2011

Silverdale Viking hoard examined by British Museum

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A hoard of Viking coins and jewellery found buried in north Lancashire is being examined by experts at the British Museum. The colle...