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Archaeologists have unearthed around 50 skeletons at what was once a medieval pilgrimage site in the West Midlands. The shallow graves were discovered while experts surveyed the grounds around Lichfield Cathedral in Staffordshire where an almshouse once stood. This almshouse was used by...

A Spitfire that crashed in Cambridgeshire while on a training mission during World War Two is to be dug up by archaeologists. The Rhodesian Squadron Royal Air Force plane, based at RAF Wittering, crashed at Holme on 22 November 1940. Pilot Officer Harold Penketh, from Brighton, did not bail...

A memorial to the thousands of crewmen who served in Bomber Command during World War Two has been officially unveiled in Lincoln. The memorial spire and walls of remembrance are the first significant development in the creation of the International Bomber Command Centre. Lord Howe...

An Anglo-Saxon-style house is to be dismantled so archaeologists can try to learn more about 5th-7th Century construction techniques. The wooden "grubenhaus" (pithouse) at West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village, Suffolk, was built in 1974 to test building theories. Its remains will be compared with...

When people think of mummies it is usually ancient Egypt that springs to mind, but a new study suggests that Bronze Age Britons also mummified their dead. Researchers have found evidence that ancient pre-Christian people across the UK used various 'exotic, bizarre and novel ways' to...

A hoard of silver coins dating back to Roman times has been found in a village near Norwich, it has been revealed. A metal detector enthusiast unearthed the 26 silver coins, which were issued between 154BC and AD37. Hoard of silver Roman coins unearthed near Norwich 26 September 2015 BBC News...

After his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte was briefly kept prisoner on a warship in Plymouth Sound. The harbour became packed as crowds flocked to see their defeated enemy. Now the city is commemorating this most unlikely, and involuntary, of south coast holidays...

A Bronze Age 'sauna house' has been discovered in Orkney - complete with a network of cells and a water tank for creating steam. The rare building is one of more than 30 structures found in the region dating back to between 2,000 BC and 1,000 BC. They were discovered together with middens...

The world's largest seahorse has been discovered by a fisherman off the British coast, sparking fresh hope for the endangered mystical creatures. The 13-inch spiny seahorse was accidentally hauled up in a net in by Michael Bailey while he was out fishing for mullet in Poole Harbour...

Buried in a wooden coffin, unlike some of the monks laid to rest nearby, the discovery of a three-year-old child's skeleton beneath a Westminster Abbey toilet block has left archaeologists baffled. Read more: Up to 50 11th century skeletons are found beneath Westminister Abbey | Daily...

A pair of metal detector enthusiasts exploring farmland in Northamptonshire recently made a surprising, and somewhat grave, discovery. Buried in a field at Whitehall Farm, Nether Heyford, Dave Derby and Alan Standish uncovered not one but two skeletons dating back to the 5th and 6th...

A cave where Bronze Age men displayed the decapitated heads of dead children has been discovered in the grounds of a public school attended by Prince Charles. Archaeologists made the grim discovery in a remote part of the estate of Gordonstoun near Inverness, whose former pupils also...

The eighth Rugby World Cup kicks off tomorrow at 8pm UK time with hosts England playing Fiji at Twickenham in the opening game. Pool A Hosts England 2003 winners (and 1991 and 2007 losing finalists) England, one of the tournament favourites, are in a fairly tough-looking Pool A - the...

The Queen has thanked well-wishers at home and overseas for their "touching messages of kindness" as she becomes Britain's longest-reigning monarch. Speaking in the Scottish Borders, the 89-year-old monarch said the title was "not one to which I have ever aspired". The Queen will have...

Two British fighters with so-called Islamic State were killed by an RAF drone strike in Syria in an "act of self-defence", David Cameron has said. Cardiff-born Reyaad Khan was targeted in Raqqa on 21 August and died alongside Ruhul Amin, from Aberdeen, and another fighter, the PM told...

This is the heart-warming moment a young female deer allowed a crow to clean out her ears as she stood grazing with her parents in a London park. Amateur photographer Kimberley Plumridge, 56, spotted the young deer, which she estimates to be younger than a year old, grazing with her mum...

For centuries, Stonehenge has mystified and enraptured archaeologists and visitors. So maybe it is not surprising that another monumental wonder from prehistory has been overlooked for so long – even though it is just a mile away. Experts have discovered an 'extraordinary' line of giant...

More than 100 Tory MPs could tomorrow back plans to formally bar the European Union from campaigning during the referendum on Britain's membership. A coalition of Tory, Labour and DUP Eurosceptics are concerned that a loophole in referendum legislation means that the EU is free to...

Normally, tourists outside Buckingham Palace love watching the daily Changing of the Guard. But, yesterday, they got to enjoy another great British institution: Mr Bean! It's been 25 years since Rowan Atkinson made his TV debut as the lovable, albeit self-centred, Mr Bean. And to celebrate...

Archaeologists plan to discover whether a myth-shrouded plot of land on Northern Ireland's Causeway Coast contains the remains of hundreds of Spanish sailors who drowned when the Armada floundered. According to local legend, an ancient graveyard near Dunluce Castle was used to give a...