George Bird, a “local archaeology enthusiast,” had a theory about the Farley Moor standing stone. He suspected this decent-sized, slightly pointed, moss-covered rock in Farley Moor forest “might be ...

The Melsonby Hoard, discovered by metal detectorist Peter Heads in 2021 and meticulously excavated since, represents one of ...

bolstering the hypothesis that such caches may have served a ritual purpose. Like all but one of the Fenn artifacts, this point bears a residue of red ocher, an iron-rich pigment that Stone Age ...