Posts by Cate Davies
Arbor City Hotel Aldgate: fourth ‘find of the week’
We’re digging deeper and delving further into Whitechapel’s past at McAleer & Rushe’s site at the Arbor City Hotel in London Aldgate!
Read MorePRESS RELEASE: By the Medway Marsh
Extraordinary Roman silver-extraction found at landmark mausoleum
Read MoreArbor City Hotel Aldgate: third ‘find of the week’
Medieval Whitechapel is coming to life in No.3 of the ‘Find of the Week’ series on McAleer & Rushe’s site at the Arbor City Hotel! This rowel spur dates from the 15th-17th century. Could this have been lost by a horse rider on the adjacent Whitechapel Highway?
Read MorePrehistory in Plumstead
Our excavations in Plumstead are ongoing, with our search for the palaoechannel known from an adjacent site, and potential Neolithic trackways, continuing. This flint came out of the base of the peat sequence just above the interface with the blue/grey Lower Alluvium at the bottom of the section photograph (below). It’s a decortication flake struck…
Read MoreRecent Archaeological Excavations at Pirton – a lecture by Mark Hinman
Mark will be giving an online talk to the Combined Hertfordshire Archaeological Societies on March 7th.
Read MoreArbor City Hotel Aldgate: second ‘find of the week’
Our second ‘find of the week’ from McAleer & Rushe’s site at Arbor City Hotel in London Aldgate: more Medieval decorated, glazed tile, but as yet no sign of the building they come from!
Read MoreRoman sheep skeletons: an update
The sheep skeletons we found recently, at a Roman settlement-edge site in the Fens in Cambridgeshire, have been cleaned and lifted with the help of Kevin Rielly, PCA’s animal bone specialist. The first count of MNI’s (minimum number of individuals) on site was up to 25 individuals. The skeletons were all females of various ages…
Read MoreWelcome Daniel!
We’re delighted to welcome a new Regional manager to the Durham office.
Read MorePrehistoric peat in Plumstead
We currently have an evaluation underway at a site in Plumstead, Greenwich, where we’re investigating the geoarchaeological deposits of the Thames in a prehistoric peat bog and hoping to find evidence of early Neolithic activity.
Read MoreFind of the week!
We are undertaking archaeological investigations for McAleer & Rushe at Arbor City Hotel in London Aldgate and our first ‘Find of the Week’ from this site is a decorated glazed Medieval floor tile.
Read MoreTales from the Vault
We’re pleased to add another monograph to our publications page: ‘Tales from the Vault and other Newington Horror Stories’, by Alexis Haslam, is an archaeological and historical study of Elephant and Castle’s underworld.
Read MorePost-box incendiarism is a far cry from archaeology…
… but our environmental specialist, Jane Wheeler, is one of the winners of the British Association for Local History Research and Publication Awards for 2022!
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