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• Bronze Age Boat on Show - The Hull Daily Mail reports that carbon dating makes an ancient boat found on the shores of the river Humber at Ferriby the oldest of its kind in western Europe.
• Dating Stonehenge - English Heritage use radiocarbon dating on the monument. Aims, methods, results.
• Execution at Stonehenge - Archaeotrace describe how trace element analysis revealed for a 'The Secrets of the Dead' TV programme that a man beheaded at Stonehenge in the Dark Ages was a local.
• Seahenge Dated to Spring 2050 BC - BBC News: precise dating reveals that Seahenge, the remarkable ring of oak timbers recently uncovered on a UK beach, is 4,050 years old. Photographs, reconstruction, links.
• The Kilnsea-Boat - The opening paragraphs of an article in Antiquity by Robert Van de Noort et al on the radiocarbon dating of a Bronze Age plank discovered in 1996 on the Yorkshire coast at Kilnsea.
• The Monk of Lihou - Janet Montgomery and Paul Budd explain how they worked out for BBC TV's 'Meet the Ancestors' that a monk buried on a Channel Island was from England, through trace elements in his teeth.
• Tracing the Origin of Roman Princesses - Two studies by Archaeotrace aiming to indentify by lead in teeth the place of origin of two high status Roman female burials; one from London - 'The Princess of the City' - and one from York.