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It can be difficult choosing where to devote time in the spectacular Cotswolds so plan your trip around our favourite towns ...
From here, drive up to Castlerigg stone circle, an eerie, neolithic structure ... capital having seen the best of Britain. Absolute Escapes offers a 20-night Great British Road Trip package ...
Tim Birkhead on great auks and their extraordinary story of evolution, exploitation and de-extinction across the years ...
From radioactive rocks to great white sharks, and a dolphin called Boris, the things stored in Britain's museum basements ...
For centuries, scientists have been trying to determine who built Stonehenge. Today, the leading theory is that several groups of Neolithic farmers constructed the monument over a period of 1,500 ...
It’s one of the most popular tourist sites in the entire world, let alone just in Great Britain. The UK’s ... remains of Neolithic settlements, and processional pathways”, creating ...
For three years young Surgeon Harvey Graham, assistant editor of the British Medical Journal, grubbed in museums and medical libraries all over Britain ... history from the neolithic age to ...
Known as 'Flagstones', it is the earliest known circular enclosure found anywhere in Great Britain. Advert It is ... after construction in the middle Neolithic period (Jennie Anderson / University ...
In temperate areas of Great Britain, the fraction of the catchment covered in cropland ... T.H.D. Artistic illustration of the Middle Neolithic settlement of Swifterbant in the Netherlands, depicting ...
Each week, the Journal invites readers to test their local knowledge by identifying a historic location from the past. Last week, however, we had a different challenge. Radstock Museum identified this ...