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Swartigill Iron Age Project

Apr 11, 2017 Lucia Marchini Digs, Fieldwork 0

The Swartigill site was identified in a survey carried out in 2004, as some stonework eroding out of the bank of the burn of Swartigill. Initially thought to be a mill serving two post-medieval...

Copped Hall Archaeology & Geophysics Taster Weekends

Apr 06, 2017 Nick Bartos Digs, Fieldwork 0

Interested in Archaeology or Geophysics? Join us in July for a TASTER WEEKEND at COPPED HALL (near Epping). Designed for absolute beginners, this is an opportunity to dig and to handle finds on a...

Copped Hall Archaeology Field Schools

Apr 06, 2017 Nick Bartos Digs, Fieldwork 0

Two 5-day Field Schools, for people already familiar with the basic techniques of archaeological excavation and recording, will run from Saturday 12th to Wednesday 16th August and from Saturday 26th...

Elmswell Farm

Apr 05, 2017 Nick Bartos Digs, Fieldwork 0

What have a lost medieval village, a Bronze Age Beaker burial, sixteen Roman denari and some Anglo-Saxon pottery got in common? That’s right, they’ve all been found right here at Elmswell Farm....

The Lancaster Hoard

Apr 05, 2017 Nick Bartos Digs, Fieldwork 0

The north west has been dismissed as a Bronze Age blank spot for far too long. Choose this dig to help set the record straight and prove that it was actually a complex ritual landscape, full of...

Oldbury Camp

Apr 05, 2017 Nick Bartos Digs, Fieldwork 0

Iron Age people are famous for building enormous hill forts. Why did they spring up and what were their function? New research is showing that it really isn’t as simple as you think. Choose this...

Lindisfarne

Apr 05, 2017 Nick Bartos Digs, Fieldwork 0

Lindisfarne may be one of the most iconic sites in English history, but the exact location of King Oswald’s monastery remains unknown. Last year, we found some tantalising clues, including the...

Archeoscan

Apr 05, 2017 CA Digs, Fieldwork 5

Archeoscan run a number of digs throughout the year. This year we will once again be returning to two Roman sites in South Gloucestershire that we have explored over the past few years. Significant...

Fordham Hall Phase II

Apr 05, 2017 Lucia Marchini Digs, Fieldwork 4

Colchester Archaeological Group and Fordham History Society, with permission from The Woodland Trust are carrying out ongoing excavations on a Roman Site at Fordham Hall, Essex. Geophysics,...

Meillionydd

Apr 05, 2017 CA Digs, Fieldwork 0

Meillionydd is a Late Bronze Age / Iron Age double ringwork hilltop enclosure, near Rhiw, on the Llŷn peninsula in North West Wales. The site has been partially excavated by Bangor University’s...

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Rheged rediscovered: uncovering a lost British kingdom in...
May 04, 2017 1

The Pictish carvings etched near the summit of Trusty’s...
Review: Grosvenor Museum
May 04, 2017 0

First opened in 1886, Chester’s Grosvenor Museum...
Review: Letters from Baghdad
Apr 11, 2017 0

The many achievements of Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) cover...
Hard or soft borders? The Roman experience in Britain
Apr 11, 2017 0

What were Hadrian’s Wall and the Antonine Wall for, and...
Tunnel: the archaeology of Crossrail
Apr 11, 2017 0

One of Europe’s largest infrastructure projects brought...