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Stone Age · Neolithic, before 3000 BC · Loch Bhorgastail, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom
Archaeologists recorded the Neolithic island above and below the waterline as one structure, using a new shallow-water camera method described in Advances in Archaeological Practice.
Greece & Rome · Late 3rd–early 4th century AD · York, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Chemical tests on gypsum burial casings held by York Museums Trust give the first confirmed evidence of the costly imperial dye on Roman textiles from York.
Stone Age · c. 3800–3200 BC · Caithness and Orkney, Highland and Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom
Genetic study of chambered tombs in Caithness and Orkney, used between about 3800 and 3200 BC, finds many men buried together were paternal relatives.
Iron Age · c. 40 BC to AD 40 · Melsonby, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Two deposits near the Brigantes' stronghold at Stanwick held parts of at least seven dismantled, bent and partly burned vehicles, buried between about 40 BC and AD 40.
Stone Age · 9290–8925 BC · Heaning Wood Bone Cave, Great Urswick, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom
The child, aged 2.5 to 3.5 and named the Ossick Lass, was buried between 9290 and 8925 BC in a cave later reused by Neolithic and Bronze Age communities.
Iron Age · 50 BC–AD 50 · Thetford, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom
The deposit near Thetford, dated to between 50 BC and AD 50, also held Britain's first known boar's head standard and five shield bosses.