A 1,500-year-old necklace has been discovered in a cave in Ireland’s Burren National Park. “The necklace is the largest Viking necklace to have been found in Ireland. Normally, Viking necklaces that have been found have five to six glass beads, but this has 71 glass beads covered with gold foil,” said archaeologist Marion Dowd, who […]

An Iron Age town and site of early Roman military occupation in Berkshire, England, may have been destroyed by Queen Boudicca. “The settlement is completely wiped out somewhere between 60 AD and 80 AD, and it starts again in 70 AD,” said Michael Fulford of the University of Reading. Rabbits are digging up archaeological sites […]