A tomb cut into the bedrock has been discovered in the courtyard of a private home in Şanlıurfa, southeastern Turkey. The single-chamber rock tomb features reliefs with unusual iconographic motifs and is an estimated 2,300 years old. The main relief depicts a man reclining with his left arm outstretched in “banquet pose” on the center … Read the full post →"Rock-cut tomb found in courtyard of a house"
A 2nd century Roman enameled bronze brooch disc fibula found at a distillery in South Ayrshire, Scotland. The plate brooch is of a type usually found in eastern Gaul, Switzerland or the Rhineland and is a very rare find for Scotland. They were popular with Roman soldiers in the 2nd century, so it likely hitched … Read the full post →"Roman enameled brooch found under palisade in Scotland"
Archaeologists excavating the remains of Sheffield castle have discovered four wooden stakes used to defend the castle when it was attacked in 1644 by Parliamentarian forces. These are the first surviving wooden stake defenses from the Civil War era found in the UK. The stakes were discovered in the former moat that defended the southern … Read the full post →"Civil war defensive stakes found at Sheffield Castle site"
A farmer in the village of Bartosze in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship of northern Poland has discovered a 2,500-year-old bronze necklace. The necklace is made of a single bronze rod with a circular cross-section. It is open at one end like a torc and decorated down its entire length with a double groove pattern in rings … Read the full post →"Farmer finds Bronze Age necklace in Poland"
An engraved symbol found on a 1st century B.C. spindle whorl is one of the earliest examples of alphabetic writing in the northern Iberian peninsula. The spindle whorl, a donut-shaped counterweight for a spinning spindle, was discovered during the 2017 excavation at the Iron Age La Peña del Castro site near La Ercina in northwestern … Read the full post →"Celtiberian letter found on spindle whorl"