Rare Iron Age idol found in Irish fen
On its recovery, the idol was taken to University College Dublin for an extensive three-year conservation project.
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Hoppenwood Bank: exploring a burnt-mound landscape
Burnt mounds are an archaeological enigma: recent discoveries at Hoppenwood Bank, a bog near Bamburgh in Northumberland, call into question even the little we thought we knew. They show that some of these mainly Bronze Age features date back to the Early Neolithic, and are associated here with a series of substantial timber platforms. Graeme Young, of the Bamburgh Research Project, explains.