Posts by Cate Davies
Join us for an Archaeological Tour of Borough/London Bridge Station!
PCA Director Peter Moore will be leading an archaeological tour to celebrate the Festival of Archaeology this year, with CBA London, around Borough/London Bridge Station. This walk will take you on a time-travelling journey through this historically significant area. Date and Time: Sunday, 23rd July at 3pm Join him to explore the sites in this…
Read MoreCentral Winchester Regeneration (CWR)
We are delighted to announce our involvement in the Central Winchester Regeneration Project, as detailed in Winchester City Council’s press-release. The development site is a potential archaeological goldmine with the possibility to address a number of current objectives in research into all periods of the city’s past. . Our investigation will comprise four trenches in…
Read MoreThe Wanderlust World Guide Awards 2023
Huge congratulations to John Shepherd (our Roman Archaeology specialist) who spends his spare time working as a tour guide for Andante Travels. John has won the Wanderlust World Guide Award 2023 for History and Culture! See the ceremony and results here:
Read MoreBirdoswald Roman Fort Excavations
Katie from PCA Durham is currently on secondment at Birdoswald Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall, at a Historic England and Newcastle University training programme for Archaeology students. Katie is helping supervise the digging and finds processing and will be there until the end of the season on 7th July. This year they’re digging to the…
Read MoreRoman London west of the Walbrook
Ireneo Grosso presents his preliminary interpretations of recent PCA excavations between Coleman Street and Moorgate to the the LAMAS 59th Annual Conference of London Archaeologists. This talk focuses on the main Roman structures and deposits recorded during our excavation in the City of London. During our mitigation work we unearthed evidence of two Roman roads,…
Read More‘Surprises from the Roman frontier’ published
Scott Vance’s article on Turret 3a of Hadrian’s Wall is now out in the 400th edition of Current Archaeology. In ‘Surprises from the Roman frontier: Excavating Hadrian’s Wall in urban Tyneside’ Scott details our investigations in the summer of 2021 which revealed not only the first turret to be uncovered along the Wall in over…
Read MorePampisford Village Fete
Last month Tegan Able and Allie Spoletini attended the Pampisford Village Fete with an array of finds. They also took a handling collection, so that people could get up close and personal with the archaeology! Many intrigued people asked some great questions; from children studying Saxons at school, to adults who’d lived in the village…
Read MoreRoman Darlington
Following on from an excavation in 2018, PCA Durham archaeologists, alongside colleagues from the Newark and Warwick offices, have uncovered the continuation of this previously unknown but extensive Roman site. We have just finished the fieldwork so are in the early stages of post-excavation but already we have some amazing finds such as the ‘Darlington’…
Read MoreStratford Congregational Church Pop-up Exhibition
Discover the remarkable story of Stratford’s lost Congregational Church in our pop-up exhibition on 3rd June!
Read MoreRoman London West of the Walbrook
Ireneo Grosso will be giving an online lecture to The City of London Archaeological Society on Friday, 19th May at 7pm. This is a hybrid event; if you are joining online, your link to join the lecture will be in your email confirmation. Use this form to register: Between May and September 2022 an archaeological…
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