In the 1840s, tin miners in Cornwall stumbled upon something unexpected - a stone fogou or underground passageway, a feature unique to the far west of Cornwall, dating back to the Iron Age.

This former mining village, whose population never rose above 1700 people, produced more than 50 professional football players, including six Scotland internationals and four FA Cup winners.

A thriving village of more than 300 residents once stood on a remote south of Scotland hillside. Now all that remains of the Woodhead lead mine near Carsphairn in Dumfries and Galloway are the ...

For more than 60 years, archaeologists and historians have pioneered new techniques in the town in an attempt to understand what life was like in the village, and why it was eventually abandoned.