North Yorkshire Council’s Archive service has a really nice post up on the history of Lead Mining in the Yorkshire Dales.
North Yorkshire Archive Treasures: Lead Mining in the Dales
Tag: Archeology
Fire from the <strike>Gods</strike> Suffolk
LiveScience has a nice article on the earliest discovery of human-controlled fire creation technology. Apparently 400,000 years ago the good people of Suffolk liked to sit around a nice warm fire!