August 13th News

There should be some new stories for a new week today. Interestingly, all the news I've found today comes from Great Britain.

New stories as of 11:41 AM:

Lead Poisoning On Mendip
Weston & Somerset Mercury
POLLUTION is much in the news today, and is especially linked with industrial processes of modern times...It caused problems in lead mining on Mendip centuries ago...
http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/content/twm/RoundAbout/story.aspx?brand=Westonmercury&category=RoundAbout&tBrand=westonmercury&tCategory=zRoundAbout&itemid=WeED13%20Aug%202007%2011%3A44%3A22%3A080

Village Bids For a Museum To Keep Safe It's Heritage
Weston & Somerset Mercury
HISTORY fans in Cheddar are pushing for a museum to be set up in the village to prevent the area's rich heritage from being lost...
http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/content/twm/news/story.aspx?brand=Westonmercury&category=news&tBrand=westonmercury&tCategory=znews&itemid=WeED13%20Aug%202007%2009%3A40%3A27%3A840

Bronze Age Brew Proves A Vintage Ale
Telegraph.co.uk
Bronze Age man was a bit of a boozer, according to a team of archaeologists who claim to have uncovered evidence of the world's largest prehistoric brewing industry...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/08/13/scibeer113.xml

Castle Dig Unearths Lost Tower
Scotsman
ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed the remains of a medieval tower at Edinburgh Castle thought to have been lost forever...
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1274532007

Celtic And Anglo Saxon Coinage
PR-GB
The Belgae introduced coins to Britain in the second century BC, but they were used for religious offerings, tribute payments, or even hoarded as evidence of wealth, rather than for trade. The Celtic economy was largely conducted by barter, and Caesar noted that iron ingots substituted for money in Britain...
http://pr-gb.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8539&Itemid=9

Archaeologists Unearth 5,000 Year-Old Settlement
The Daily Mail
Archaeologists have discovered a Neolithic settlement dating back nearly 5,000 years....Experts believe the unusual buildings recovered at Ness of Brodgar in Orkney could be as historically significant as the islands' famous Skara Brae village...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=475051&in_page_id=1965
Also published at:
http://www.24dash.com/communities/25980.htm

Voyage Unravels One of Viking Era's Enduring Mysteries
Daily India
London, Aug 13: Archaeologists and historians will solve one of the greatest riddles of the Viking Age when they complete a 1200 mile voyage from Scandinavia to Ireland aboard a giant Viking warship, an exact replica of one built nearly 1000 years ago...
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/165175.php/Voyage-unravels-one-of-Viking-eras-enduring-mysteries

Dig Unearths Neolithic Settlement
BBC News
The remains of a massive Neolithic settlement dating back more than 5,000 years have been discovered in Orkney...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/6943696.stm