In the most robust study of its kind, archaeologists from Cardiff University analyzed six “middens,” or massive prehistoric ...

Ancient England had more "bling" than historians have given it credit for. That's the conclusion archaeologists drew from a cache of more than 800 Iron Age artifacts from northeast England dating back ...

In what the team calls the “largest study of its kind,” researchers applied this principle to Britain’s iconic middens, or ...

OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND—The Oxford Mail reports that a 2,700-year-old blacksmith shop has been discovered in an Iron Age settlement site complete with roundhouses, an Iron Age pantry, ceremonial animal ...

According to a new study in iScience, feasts were well worth the travel, even at the turbulent end of the British Bronze Age.

Centuries ago, on the hilltops of the modern-day United Kingdom, communities would trek to the highest points to build their homes. Called hillforts, these ancient fortifications were in prominent ...

An amateur metal detectorist in Northern England has discovered an "unusual" 2,000-year-old hoard of artifacts that was burned and then buried. The Iron Age finding, named the Melsonby Hoard after the ...

Bronze Age Britons gathered for huge "food festivals" - with pork, beef and lamb on the menu, reveals new research.

“At a time of climatic and economic instability, people in southern Britain turned to feasting,” said study co-author Richard ...

DORSET, ENGLAND—According to a BBC News report, researchers from Bournemouth University examined the 2,000-year-old remains of a woman unearthed in 2010 in southwestern England’s site of Winterborne ...

A stunning hoard of destroyed – yet still insightful – two-millennia-old artifacts were recently brought to light by archaeologists in the United Kingdom. The discovery was announced by Durham ...