Posts by Cate Davies
Breaking news: A collection of 13 Roman sheep in a ditch
During excavation of a Roman settlement-edge site in the Fens in Cambridgeshire, we discovered approximately 13 sheep skeletons in a ditch.
Read MoreLAMAS 58th Annual Conference of London Archaeologists
This year’s conference will be held on Saturday, 19th March 2022, 10.45am to 5pm via zoom.
Read MoreFrom Healing Waters to a Font of Knowledge
We’re pleased to announce our latest publication, which is available as a free open-access download, with hard copies also available for sale on our publications page.
Read MoreA Roman Chi-Rho Graffito
Our Roman pottery specialist Eniko has written a fascinating article on this rare and significant find, just published in Britannia.
Read MoreThe Bronze Age cremation urn – an update
The Bronze Age vessel we found in April at Cholsey has now been micro-excavated, with potentially fascinating results. The beautifully decorated cremation urn was found deliberately buried in the centre of a droveway running through the site in Oxfordshire as an apparent votive offering. Scans confirmed it held a cremation, and the precise 3-dimensional model…
Read MoreFind of the week (so far!)
A delightful recent find from one of our sites in East London! This is a late 19th century spittoon; these went out of fashion when tuberculous became rife in the 1910s.
Read MoreFind of the week!
We’ve had another exciting find from one of our evaluations this week! This semi-complete urn, with decoration which commonly occurs on middle and middle-late Bronze Age pottery, and also (although less commonly) on post Deverel-Rimbury late Bronze Age pottery, contained a cremation along with these two copper-alloy objects. One of these, a hollow hexagonal tube…
Read MoreRooted Cities Wandering Gods 2021
This conference will be held from 18-20 November in Groningen as a hybrid event, where participants can attend in person or online; click here for more details.
Read MoreThe Autumn London Archaeological Forum
CBA London will be hosting the London Archaeological Forum online this year, on Monday 8th November at 6pm.
Read MoreFind of the week!
A wonderful find from one of our sites yesterday! This complete German Frechen stoneware Bartmann (or Bellarmine) jug has a benign face and a medallion with an unknown coat of arms. It dates from c. 1580-90 and was used for serving alcohol (probably ale). Complete examples of these jugs are more frequent finds than other…
Read MoreBefore Bedale: a talk
Dr James Gerrard will be giving a talk in the Ballroom at Bedale Hall, on Friday 29th October 2021 at 7pm, on the results of our excavations ahead of the Bedale, Aiskew and Leeming Bar bypass in North Yorkshire. A selection of artefacts will be on display.
Read MoreSurrey Historic Environment Research Framework Conference 2021
This year’s conference, ‘Archaeology of the Church: perspectives from recent work in the South-East’, will be run jointly with CBA-SE and held as an online event on Saturday 27 November.
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