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England       Test places Roman villa under UK beet field    Nottingham Evening Post   6/21/2003 Orkney discovery may be the first farm in Britain    The Herald UK   6/20/2003  Y chromosomes rewrite British history    BBC News   6/19/2003  Rare flint tools unearthed at Norwich stadium may be 12,000 years old    BBC News   6/17/2003 Archaeologists unearth Britain`s first cave pictures     Guardian UK   6/15/2003 Sacrifice site dates back 4,000 years    Yorkshire Post UK   6/13/2003 Late Medieval pub uncovered in Lichfield     icBirmingham UK    5/28/2003 17th century wreck of H.M.S. Sussex to be recovered   New York Times    5/25/2003 15th century abbey found in Brentford; once held King Henry VIII's coffin  Hounslow Guardian   5/24/2003 Stonehenge burials of ca. 2300 BC open new windows on past    CBS News    5/22/2003 Lindisfarne gospels may date from ca. AD 720, same as Bede's Ecclesiastical History   BBC News    5/15/2003 Future secured for Credenhill Iron Age Hill Fort (ca. 200 BC)   BBC News    5/10/2003 Dartmoor farmer builds own Bronze Age style burial chamber    BBC News    4/30/2003 Battle to rescue Welsh "Newport Ship" (AD 1465)  is lost   Guardian UK    4/21/2003  850-year-old carved dragon's head unearthed at UK construction site   Lincolnshire Echo   4/20/2003 13th century golden brooch, a love token with Latin inscription, found in Devon field   BBC News   4/13/2003 Original 17th century port of British East India Company sought near Surat, India  Times of India    4/09/2003 3,000 Iron Age coins found at pagan site   Daily Telegraph    4/08/2003 Two monoliths from the Avebury stone circle to be re-erected   BBC News 4/07/2003 Bronze Age barge (1300 BC) uncovered in Trent held paving stones    British Archaeology   4/05/2003 2nd c. AD Roman Bath excavated along Thames in East London  British Archaeology   4/05/2003 Medieval wall, gatehouses, and shops revealed in Coventry   icCoventry    4/02/2003 Remains of a timber mill recorded in AD 1086 uncovered in Stafford   BBC News   3/22/2003 Dark Age burial site for Christians (7-9th c. AD) found beneath English school playground  BBC News   3/19/2003   Cellars from three Saxon buildings uncovered in Norwich     BBC News    3/14/2003 Mesolithic house remains in Howick, Northumberland date from 7800 BC  BBC News 3/03/2003 Stonehenge and Avebury farmers agree to conserve land where Druids walked   Western Daily Press    3/01/2003

Ireland     Further digs planned at bog where Iron Age man’s body found   Irish Examiner    5/26/2003 Remains of 1,000 year castle found in Portrush  Belfast Telegraph   5/22/2003 Well-preserved body from Midlands bog 500-2000 years old   Irish Examiner    5/16/2003 Remains of a medieval castle believed built by Irish chieftain Domnall O`Neill have been uncovered    UTV UK   5/11/2003 Knights Templar site (15-16th c) found in Galway?   Galway Advertiser   5/09/2003 Stones, bones, ancient pottery and glass discovered at Dungannon's Castle Hill open window on past  icNorthernIreland  5/06/2003 Archaeoastronomy Links Stone-Age Tomb Builders With Sun   Space Daily   4/27/2003 Stone Age tombs in Ireland built oriented to Sun's movement across the sky   BBC News  4/10/2003 Discovery of 13th Century Irish wood in the framework of Salisbury Cathedral    BBC News

Scotland     Four mummified bodies from about 1000 BC found in Scottish isle of South Uist    CNN    3/19/2003

Wales     Medieval castle works unveiled    BBC News   6/14/2003

Drumanagh: a possible Roman fort in Ireland, AD 79-138  (AR 1,1; 1,2) Stonehenge revisited (AR 3,1) London's Leading Lady (AR 2,3)

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