National Museum of Wales holds pottery workshops in Caerleon and Cardiff during the year. These take the form of a half day meeting on Tuesdays across some 6 weeks. That in the autumn of 2019 at Caerleon will be working on Roman samian from the Legionary Fortress. An enthusiasm for Roman pottery and a willingness […]
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Hanwell Park
This will be the 7th. year of archaeological investigation into the seventeenth-century gardens at Hanwell Castle, part of a programme of doctoral research with the University of Oxford. We will be concentrating on the excavation of a water parterre based on an octagonal stone lined island which may be the location of the famous ‘House […]
Archeoscan
Archeoscan run a number of digs open to members of the public throughout the year. This year we will once again be returning to two Roman sites. In April, our first dig will focus on the wider hinterland of the main building of a site that we have been excavating for the past 5 years […]
The Colemore Project Spring Excavation
Colemore is in the west of the South Downs National Park with a fascinating buried landscape of past rural settlement. Ten seasons of excavations, test pits, desk-based research and geophysical survey reveal a complex settlement of enclosures and habitation dating mainly to the Romano-British (RB) with glimpses of the Iron Age (IA). Buildings include a […]