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Archaeologists have discovered a large group of ancient rock art in Perthshire, which they hope will shed more light on the areas prehistoric inhabitants.
A team working on National Trust for Scotland (NTS) land as part of the Ben Lawers Historic Landscape Project found the previously undiscovered cup-and-ring style markings on a hillside overlooking Loch Tay and Kenmore. The carvings could date back to Neolithic times and be up to 5,000 years old.
Cup-and-ring rock art features abstract symbols of circles and cups, chipped out of the stone some time between 3,000-1,500 BC, from the late Neolithic period to the early Bronze Age. Other examples have been found at locations in upland Britain and across Atlantic Europe, from Portugal to Orkney.

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Modern Britons are a cosmopolitan bunch. Peoples from across the globe now make the island home, bringing with them, theoretically, a diverse array of genes. But comparing the genetic material of more than 1,000 contemporary Englishmen with that of 48 of their ancient peers reveals that the ancients had even more diverse genetic codes.
Molecular ecologist Rus Hoelzel of Durham University in England and his European colleagues compared the genetic make up of six English ancestors from the Roman period, 25 from early in the Saxon conquest and 17 from the late Saxon period with the mitochondrial DNA sequences of more than 6,000 modern Europeans and Middle Easterners.

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Archaeologists believe they may have unearthed a Bronze Age cemetery near Peterborough after digging up the remains of a 3,500 year-old skeleton.
Experts who made the find at Bardon Aggregates' Pode Hole Farm quarry in Thorney, near Peterborough, say they expect to come across further burial sites as excavations continue.
The skeleton, which is thought to date from the middle to late Bronze Age, was uncovered by Milton Keynes-based Phoenix Consulting Archaeology Limited, during routine excavation work.

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British Ice Age cave art site preserved
Work to protect and preserve an Ice Age site in Derbyshire (England) has been completed. The project at the Ice Age cave art centre at Creswell Crags was funded by the East Midlands Development Agency and the county council. It included building new scree banks to show how the gorge would have looked about 10 to 50,000 years ago.
A county council spokesperson said archaeologists were consulted during the preservation project to ensure the site's natural beauty was not spoiled.
'Unique site' A £200,000 bridleway, which links up the visitor centre to the caves, was also unveiled.

"We recognise the importance of preserving and enhancing such a unique archaeological site and great care was taken to build a bridleway in keeping with the natural surroundings of the Crags" - Councillor Brian Lucas, the council's cabinet member for environmental services.

The Creswell cave art, near the Nottinghamshire border, was discovered in 2003 and includes 12,000-year-old engravings of bison, horses and birds. It has been described as one of the most important prehistoric finds in Britain. Archaeological finds dating back between 10,000 and 50,000 years have also been discovered, including flint and bone tools and carvings - proving that Ice Age hunters visited the site to hunt mammoth and reindeer.

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Archaeologists investigating the site of a Pictish monastery in Easter Ross thought to have been founded by St Columba in 565AD have discovered that it was built on top of a prehistoric cemetery.
The revelation follows the excavation of three 5th-century graves by a team of experts from York University, who have been working on the Tarbat Peninsula at Portmahomack since 1994.
Professor Martin Carver, who is leading the dig, yesterday said these were the first burial sites they had found outwith St Colman's Church and they shone new light on why the monastery site was chosen.
Prof Carver said there were Bronze Age and Iron Age burials all along the coast of the Tarbat Peninsula, many of them encountered years ago by builders.
He said the three new examples of early graves, which came to light during the Tarbat dig, were 6ft 6in long and over 3ft 3in deep.

"One had large slabs of sandstone on all four sides of the skeleton, and a roof of slabs over the top"

A new exhibition of the Portmahomack archaeological discoveries funded by Highland 2007, opened recently at the Tarbat Discovery Centre.

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A cataclysmic flood cleaved Britain from France hundreds of thousand years ago, in a violent act of nature that carved out the white cliffs of Dover and set the course of history for a new island.

High-resolution sonar images of the English channel collected over more than 20 years have revealed a deep scar in the seabed that was ripped from the limestone bedrock by a torrent of water 400,000 years ago. At the time, glaciers pushed down from the north pole to the tip of north London and England's southern coast was reachable from France by a broad land bridge. The images show a deep sub-marine channel that today reaches down to 90m, with scour marks and landforms shaped by the overwhelming rush of water.

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 The discovery of an ancient well on a Cornish estate has led to speculation that it is the legendary well of St Petroc.
The discovery was made by amateur archaeologist Jonathan Clemes while searching for a secret tunnel in the grounds of Prideaux Place, an Elizabethan manor house at Padstow.
Mr Clemes regularly works with TV's Time Team and carries out a lot of excavations on the Prideaux estate.

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A  glimpse of life in Anglo Saxon Sedgeford has been unearthed by archaeologists who believe they have discovered evidence of one of the village's earliest settlements.
Experts have made a number of exciting finds which suggest the village boasted a thriving eighth century farming community which feasted on a diet of oysters, muscles and ****les.

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 One of the country's most significant maritime archaeological sites has been severely damaged, it is claimed, by a rogue fishing boat. The undersea site off Prawle Point, South Devon, has been found to contain Bronze Age artefacts dating back 3,500 years.
On Monday, carefully placed marker buoys which indicated where the site lies had disappeared, and archaeologists said anchored lines pinpointing the wreck on the seabed had been torn up and cut.
Ronald Howell of the South West Maritime Archaeological Group (SWMAG), said he was "devastated" to see their hard work had been destroyed.
Mr Howell is a diver and secretary to the group, which comprises about ten people who self-fund the archaeological projects, carried out in their spare time.

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English Heritage inspectors have been visiting a 4,000-year-old feature in Herefordshire to see if it should be preserved as an ancient monument.
Archaeologists have said the Rotherwas Ribbon, found by road builders, could be as important as Stonehenge.

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