Welcome to the Celtic History Blog sponsored by MacGregor Historic Games. I’ll be focusing on interesting bits in the news regarding Celtic history and archeology. I’m hoping to update this at least a couple times a week, possibly more often when there’s more I discover.
Mostly it will be links to the news articles I find, with occasional more detail on other things I run across in under the topic.
For our first entry:
Excavations of a hill fort located near one of the largest burial mounds in Eastern France have been carried out by an archaeologist from the University of Bristol. Among the many finds is a bronze brooch: a masterpiece of early Celtic art with a duck’s head motif, its eyes inlaid with Mediterranean coral.
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2010/7118.html
There are cranks who believe that New Zealand was settled by Celts several hundred years before it was discovered by the ancestors of modern Maori
http://www.celticnz.co.nz/
A Roman home or trading post is being excavated and is the first site of its kind to be found in North Wales and will help historians to understand the relationship between the Romans and the indigenous people.
http://www.theonlinemail.co.uk/bangor-and-anglesey-news/local-bangor-and-anglesey-news/2010/07/28/excavation-of-roman-site-near-brynsiencyn-66580-26935484/
An in-depth survey of Tara Hill has uncovered many secrets of the place in a survey conducted by Discovery program and funded by the Irish Heritage Council.
http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/Ancient-secrets-of-Tara-Hill-revealed-99089684.html
A rare 4,500-year-old Neolithic figurine discovered at an archaeological dig site on a remote Scottish island.
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/A-second-Venus-found-in.6426346.jp
A Fife lecturer is part of a European team that has found a Stonehenge “twin,” a discovery described as the most exciting of a lifetime at the prehistoric site.
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/Community/Heritage-and-History/article/3058/st-andrews-scholar-seeks-secrets-of-stonehenge-s-sister.html
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