LIVE FROM THE LAB / Investigating Bronze Age Artefacts From Lancashire

It’s not every day that you get to peek into an archaeologist’s lab and watch as they examine a pair of very delicate Bronze Age artefacts, but today you can… What happens to artefacts…

Why Do These Little Cups Keep Showing Up In Britain’s Bronze Age Burials?

  Accessory cups, incense cups, funerary cups, chafing cups, pygmy cups… archaeologists call these enigmatic little pots all sorts of things. Found in Bronze Age burials all over Britain, the truth is we still…

Live / Discoveries From A Bronze Age Burial Mound In North West England

We’re Opening A Pop-Up Museum In Lancaster!

This September, we’re opening a Pop-Up Museum to display the ‘most spectacular collection of Bronze Age artefacts ever discovered in North West England’. At the same time, we’ll be carrying out a crowdfunded investigation…

From The Lab: Can Archaeologists Do DNA Analysis On Cremated Bones To Tell Where They Came From?

It’s time to start getting forensic on the cremated human bones from Morecambe Bay and figure out where they came from. But is DNA analysis possible, and if not, what else is? Over the…

From The Lab: The Curious Case Of The Burnt Stone

Careful examination of the stone tool found inside the Morecambe burial urn raises a surprising question about the body it was buried with. We’ve heard a lot about the rare Bronze Age burial urn…

Site Diary: What We Found Inside The Morecambe Urn

The Morecambe urn is a rare discovery, full to the brim with an unusual quantity of extraordinarily well-preserved human bone. Here’s what we now know about who they belonged to. The discovery of a…

Site Diary: What Kind Of Burial Mound Have We Actually Found?

What type of barrow is Morecambe’s Bronze Age burial mound? There are as many possibilities as there are flavours of ice cream for sale on Morecambe’s famous beachfront promenade, but after two weeks of…