A 2,500-year-old waterhole lined with wickerwork was discovered at York University in northern England, at a site which also contains a Roman building.

In Scotland, a medieval copper belt buckle turned up in a collapsed sewer, along with animal bones, shells, pottery, and a padlock.  

Some 3,000 Anglo-Saxon skeletons that were dug up 30 years ago will be reburied in a ceremony conducted in Anglo Saxon. Scientists from English Heritage used the bones to study diseases.  

What is being called a significant Aboriginal camping and hunting ground and burial site was uncovered in drought-stricken Queensland, Australia.

Two small nineteenth-century cannons that washed ashore in Oregon still belong to the Navy. The guns are thought to have come from the Navy schooner USS Shark, the last of such ships used to suppress slave traders and pirates.  

In a collaborative effort, a settlement pattern regional survey of southeastern Shandong Province has been completed by Chinese and American scientists.

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