Stonehenge road closure approved Wednesday 2nd November 2011 Plans to close a main road running past Stonehenge have been backed by the government following a public inquiry.
English Heritage wanted to stop traffic from travelling close to the stones and "restore the dignity" of the World Heritage Site by closing the A344.
The scheme will see an 879 metre section of the A344 from its junction with the A303 closed.
Part of the B3086 from its junction with the A344 will also be closed and "increased capacity" added at Longbarrow Crossroads.
A decision over the remainder of the A344 and other byways will be decided by Wiltshire Council.
___________________________________________ Arrest over damage to Priddy Circles Tuesday 1st November 2011 A 72-year-old man from Somerset has been arrested on suspicion of damaging a prehistoric monument near Wells.
Damage was done to a section of the Priddy Circles, which is made up of four large Neolithic circular henges, at some point in May or June this year.
___________________________________________ Glastonbury Holy Thorn destroyed Thursday 9th December 2010 People of Glastonbury are in a state of shock after a Holy Thorn site was attacked last night.
The crown of the iconic Holy Thorn tree on Wearyall Hill has been lopped off and dumped – leaving just a 6ft stump protected by an iron cage.
However, it appears attempts were made to remove the cage, implying the vandals wanted the entire tree.
If the tree survives without its crown, it should grow a new supply of thorn.
Police officers are on site this morning (Thursday) and conducting door-to-door enquiries to find any witnesses.
___________________________________________ More trees for Glastonbury Tor
Monday 22nd November 2010 Two thousand trees are going to be planted on the bottom slopes of Glastonbury Tor, in a hark back to the area's traditional roots.
On Saturday, 20 November, volunteers and staff at the National Trust will begin the three-week project in one of the southern fields.
Organisers hope the mass-planting will "be an eye-catching reminder of yesteryear".
The new hedges will follow the "remnant lines of ancient field systems", helping the Tor to resemble its former look two centuries ago.
___________________________________________ Roman settlement unearthed in London Wednesday 17th November 2010 A Roman settlement filled with ancient artefacts and human remains has been found on a west London building site.
Archaeologists excavating the listed Syon Park site made the discovery of more than 11,000 Roman items just half a metre below the ground.
They were digging on the plot of land ahead of the construction of a new hotel on the outskirts of the historic Syon Park Estate, near Brentford.
Part of one of Roman Britain's most important roads was also found.
___________________________________________ Bronze Age hoard discovered in Essex field Tuesday 2nd November 2010 Archaeologists have unearthed a collection of Bronze Age axe heads, spear tips and other 3,000-year-old metal objects buried in an Essex field.
The items include an intact pottery container with heavy contents which has been removed undisturbed.
The materials are now at a local museum where archaeologists hope to uncover new insights into Bronze Age Britain.
___________________________________________ English Heritage attempts to copyright Stonehenge Thursday 21st October 2010 "We are sending you an email regarding images of Stonehenge in your photo library website. Please be aware that any images of Stonehenge can not be used for any commercial interest, all commercial interest to sell images must be directed to English Heritage."
___________________________________________ Did Boudica live near Norwich? Thursday 19th August 2010 Archaeologists are set to unearth further secrets of a Roman town on the outskirts of Norwich - and are hoping to discover evidence linking the settlement to East Anglia's Iceni queen Boudica.
Channel 4's Time Team will be filming the excavations at Caistor St Edmund, which are the first within the Roman walls of the site for 75 years.
The Roman town of Venta Icenorum lies beneath the fields at the site but historians believe it might have been built on top of a previous Iceni settlement - perhaps even the home of the warrior queen Boudica.
___________________________________________ Skellig's settlement may pre-date monastery Tuesday 17th August 2010 SKELLIG MICHAEL'S settlement history may be "far more complex" than previously thought, according to a Connemara archaeologist who has discovered several additional stairways on the Kerry rock.
The previously unidentified sets of steps were discovered recently by archaeologist Michael Gibbons on the northern and southern flanks of Skellig Michael, a Unesco world heritage site.
Gibbons believes the networks of stairways indicate several phases to Skellig Michael's occupation, believed to date from the sixth to eighth centuries when monks settled there – with the last permanent residents being lightkeepers from the 1820s until the lighthouse automation there in April 1987.
Remains of a fort above the existing monastery indicate the monks could have moved into a "pre-existing citadel", Gibbons says. This structure may have been one of a number of "high forts" that are known to have existed on the Dingle peninsula and on the Blasket islands.
___________________________________________ New discovery at Welsh Roman fortress Friday 13th August 2010 Archaeology students learning how to use mapping equipment have stumbled across the site of large Roman buildings on the banks of the river Usk in Wales, right by one of the best-known and most-studied Roman sites in Britain.
The structures have yet to be excavated, but one is enormous, possibly a granary or warehouse – or a palatial riverside villa.
The students located the previously unknown buildings as they were learning to use geophysical tools, which can reveal the outlines of buried structures, in fields by the Roman fortress at Caerleon – claimed by some romantics as King Arthur's Camelot. The area has been excavated and studied for two centuries.
The buildings lie outside the fortress walls, where archaeologists believed there was nothing except a few outbuildings and stores.
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