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Civil War battlefield added to English Heritage list

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‘World’s oldest calendar’ discovered in field in Scotland

Team to trace pioneering Grand Canyon journey

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Workmen uncover ‘medieval house’ in Conwy

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Mick Aston obituary

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Medieval skeletons ‘give clues to leprosy origins’

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Second World War bomber recovered from Channel

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Edward VIII ‘bugged during abdication crisis’

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‘Anglo-Saxon’ church uncovered beneath Lincoln Castle

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‘4,000-year-old skeleton’ uncovered near Windsor

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Yorkshire Viking hoard ‘is nationally important’

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Bones exhumed from unmarked grave at ‘Alfred the Great’ church

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Neanderthals became extinct ‘due to large eyes’

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Viking ‘sunstone’ found in shipwreck

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