and Early Bronze Age. Fine-grained stone was quarried from hillsides in Cumbria, Wales, Cornwall and Northern Ireland. Mined flint is of better quality than surface flint. Mines are known in ...

Archaeologists recently discovered multiple prehistoric monuments in the South East of Ireland. This discovery ... in the early Neolithic and Bronze Age. Before now, there was little evidence ...

“You are,” Smith says as I stare at the newly exposed bright filigree of the Viking sword found in a river I have spent a lifetime crossing, “only the sixth person to see this decoration since the ...

An Irish museum has solved the mystery of a bizarre delivery of two bronze-age axe heads delivered to curators inside a ...

During the Bronze Age, horns were widely used in Ireland and over 104 have been discovered. The two shown here are part of a collection of four discovered in a bog at Drumabest, Co. Antrim.