Statement from the Battlefield Trust
The Battlefields Trust is supportive of archaeological metal detecting on nationally important battlefields and their periphery provided it is conducted to current standards of best practice within the framework of an archaeological survey. The Trust’s policy on battlefield surveys can be found here and the methodology it use
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http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/01/2012/boston-big-dig
In late July and early August 2011, a team of almost one hundred enthusiastic volunteers from Boston in Lincolnshire got a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to excavate within the town’s historic market place.
The aim was not only to investigate what was buried beneath the market place but to involve the residents of Boston
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The stones of the recently excavated Whitehorse Hill cist have been returned to their original location on northern Dartmoor by Dartmoor National Park Authority’s Archaeology and Conservation Works teams. The cist excavation revealed a collection of nationally important artefacts including beads, worked leather and textiles and cremated human remains.
The base stone of the cist had been ta
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http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/9378383.Strange_burials_found_at_dig___bodies_of_children_found_among_remains/?ref=rss
THE remains of two children hastily buried in shallow graves have been found among bones dating back to the 12th century during a community excavation in East Oxford.
The Archeox project spent six weeks working in the grounds of Bartlemas Chapel, off Cowley
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Evidence of a ‘golden age’ of moustache wearing has been discovered in the RCAHMS photographic archives.
From the tonsorial elegance of Victorian shooting parties, to the hand-brushed, stiff upper-lips of Edwardian country gentlemen, the images reveal the popular moustachery of a bygone era.
Now RCAHMS have joined up with Movember, the charity initiative which aims to raise money and awarenes
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