The Cauldron: A Pagan Forum

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Vikings were more pioneer than pillager:
http://phys.org/news/2015-02-vikings-craft-international-pillaging.html

Gerbils are now getting some of the blame for the bubonic plague:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31588671

Feature on the first victims of the First Crusade:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/opinion/sunday/the-first-victims-of-the-first-crusade.html

France
Medieval burials from Limoges:
http://www.francebleu.fr/culture/archeologie/limoges-15-sepultures-decouvertes-rue-du-pont-st-etienne-2163069

A mass grave beneath a Paris hospital/supermarket:
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/02/2015/parisian-hospital-cemetery-excavation-from-medieval-to-modern

Malta
Finds from various periods during road construction on Malta:
http://www.maltastar.com/dart/20150225-tm-archaeological-discoveries-in-the-salina-bay-area

Norway
Islamic coins from a Viking shield boss:
http://thornews.com/2015/02/14/found-islamic-coins-hidden-inside-viking-age-shield-boss/

Poland
3rd/2nd millennium burials from a barrow in Poland:
http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,403858,the-first-barrow-from-the-turn-of-the-third-and-second-millennium-bc-excavated-in-the-south-eastern.html

United Kingdom
Evidence that wheat was being imported to Britain some 8000 years b.p.:
http://phys.org/news/2015-02-ancient-wheat-stone-age-links.html

A Bronze Age hoard from Anglesey:
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/anglesey-treasure-hoard-over-3000-8725025

A clumsy metal-detecting archaeology student found a very valuable Anglo Saxon pendant:
http://www.edp24.co.uk/norfolk-life/video_uea_archaeology_student_unearths_anglo_saxon_pendant_worth_an_estimated_50_000_1_3972731

I’m not sure if we mentioned this plague-associated graffiti from a Cambridgeshire church:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-31459761

Interesting burials from the War of the Roses:
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art519421-medieval-skeletons-found-in-york-could-have-been-executed-criminals-or-lancastrian-soldiers

Doesn’t seem to be very pleasant inside Landgate Arch:
http://www.itv.com/news/2015-02-26/twenty-five-tonnes-of-pigeon-poo-found-inside-ancient-monument/

Feature on King John:
http://historytoday.com/marc-morris/king-john-still-englands-greatest-villain

… and his teeth are going on display:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-31637674

Concerns over development at Bury St Edmonds:
http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/eminent_archaeologists_and_historians_raise_concerns_over_bury_st_edmunds_development_site_1_3969522

A bronze age burial urn has gone on display in Warwickshire:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-31643168

Concerns for Stonehenge:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-31584718