Mystery solved at Canterbury!
Way back in another time and another website the Canterbury Archaeological Trust posted this ‘Mystery Find No 2’. At that time several suggestions were...
Staffordshire Hoard Festival begins 25th June
The Festival has been funded by a £198,000 ‘Exceptional Award’ from Arts Council England - Hoard Festival features 22 plays in total – 19...
A weighty find
This set of seven squat, cylindrical, lead, or lead-alloy, weights was recovered from a single feature.
The four largest weights have coins set into their...
Searching for DNA in Hinkley Point Early Medieval Burials
Cotswold Archaeology report that analysis of the human skeletons from Hinkley Point continued throughout 2016. Following approval by a range of consultees of a...
Bronze Age burial urn returns home
A surprise discovery
The Bronze Age burial urn, with cremated remains were found in Clinton Lane during routine archaeological evaluations of foundation trenches being dug...
Volunteer Trip to Avebury
On Monday Avebury welcomed a group of about 40 volunteers from the local area. The volunteers were given a fascinating tour of Avebury Stone...
Animated Bayeux Tapestry
Just as the historic original embroidery does, the animation depicts the lead up to to the Norman Invasion of Britain in 1066. Starts about...
Headland Archaeology site is an exciting UK discovery
Headland Archaeology Ltd are thrilled that investigations for the Aberdeen Park and Ride at Dyce, on behalf of AECOM for Aberdeen City Council, made the list amongst...
Saxon Sword’s Secrets
The Barrow Clump excavation on Salisbury Plain, has has shown the site was the focus of human activity for over five thousand years.
Originally a...
The Drumbeg Wreck
The ‘Drumbeg wreck’ a 17th-18th-century shipwreck, was discovered by Ewan Mackay and Michael Errington while scallop diving near the village of Drumbeg in December...