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- Dating Stonehenge - English Heritage use radiocarbon dating on the monument. Aims, methods, results.
www.eng-h.gov.uk/stoneh/start.htm
- English and Welsh are Races Apart - From the BBC, genetic research suggests the Welsh are the "true" Britons while the English evolved from Anglo-Saxon invaders from modern-day Holland.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/wales/newsid_2076000/2076470.stm
- Execution at Stonehenge - Archaeotrace describe how trace element analysis revealed for a 'The Secrets of the Dead' TV program that a man beheaded at Stonehenge in the Dark Ages was a local.
www.archaeotrace.co.uk/stonehenge.html
- Seahenge Dated to Spring 2050 BC - BBC News: precise dating reveals that Seahenge, the remarkable ring of oak timbers recently uncovered on a UK beach, is 4,050 years old. Photographs, reconstruction, links.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_544000/544947.stm
- The Kilnsea-Boat - The opening paragraphs of an article in Antiquity by Robert Van de Noort et al on the radiocarbon dating of a Bronze Age plank discovered in 1996 on the Yorkshire coast at Kilnsea.
intarch.ac.uk/antiquity/noort.html
- The Monk of Lihou - Janet Montgomery and Paul Budd explain how they worked out for BBC TV's 'Meet the Ancestors' that a monk buried on a Channel Island was from England, through trace elements in his teeth.
www.archaeotrace.co.uk/lihou.html
- Tracing the Origin of Roman Princesses - Two studies by Archaeotrace aiming to identify by lead in teeth the place of origin of two high status Roman female burials; one from London and one from York.
www.archaeotrace.co.uk/stories/princesses.html
- Turriff Logboat Discovered in 1893 Dates From Bronze Age - The remains of a boat stored in Aberdeen University's Marischal Museum were recently radiocarbon dated in the US, reports the Press and Journal.
www.thisisnorthscotland.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=84092&command=displayContent&sourceNode=83929&contentPK=1997204
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