PCA Cambridge Honored with Certificate of Appreciation

We’re proud to announce that Sian O’Neill at the Cambridge office has received a Certificate of Appreciation from local schools for hosting students in work experience placements. This recognition highlights the impact of helping students develop key skills like communication, teamwork, and confidence in a professional setting. These placements offer students a real-world view of…

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Community Excavation Open Day

Come along to our first community excavation open day this Saturday! We’ll be at 26 Friarsgate, Winchester between 10am and 1.30pm, with artefacts on display, finds handling, finds drawing and tours of the excavation.

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Work Experience at the Cambridge Office 2024

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Anglo-Saxon Brooch

This stunning Anglo-Saxon cast saucer brooch is our star find so far from a site in the West Midlands! It would originally have had garnet inlays and dates to the 6th century. Although research is still in its early stages, no parallels have been found for this combination of animal decoration and triskele motif, suggesting…

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Find of the week

What a find! Last week Tamsin, one of our archaeologists, found this bronze age socketed axe during an evaluation in Hertfordshire. Socketed axes were developed during the Late Bronze Age, an evolution on the earlier “palstave” type axes which characterised the Middle Bronze Age in Britain and Ireland. This example has a side loop that…

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World Heritage Day

For #WorldHeritageDay we’d like to share our recent work at the Tower of London. PCA has been commissioned by Historic Royal Palaces to undertake built heritage work during several stages of restoration at the Tower of London. In 2018, during the replacement of the protective staircase in the Flamsteed Turret, the timber covers and the…

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Very rare Roman coins identified!

We’re accustomed to unearthing fascinating artefacts, but every so often, something extraordinary is discovered which sends ripples through the archaeological community. During recent excavations in Suffolk, our team found two very unusual Roman coins. Dr Peter Guest, who has undertaken extensive research on the coins has just posted his findings on LinkedIn. The coins in…

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