Posts by Cate Davies
A Bronze Age votive offering
This week at Cholsey our team have continued to be fascinated and surprised by the artefactual material revealed during our investigations. Following on from those beautiful worked flints and the dog burial, this week we have uncovered this rather stunning Bronze Age food storage jar which had been deliberately buried in the centre of the…
Read MoreLAMAS Archaeology Conference 2021 – Alistair Douglas on excavations at Bermondsey Abbey
LAMAS Archaeology Conference 2021 – Matt Edmonds on excavations at Holywell Priory in Shoreditch
Worked flints at Cholsey
As we mentioned in our first update, a cache of worked flints was discovered in one of the small pits that dot the excavation site in Cholsey, Oxfordshire. This was excavated by Sean Rice from our Warwick office. In amongst the more general cache were four lovely scrapers, two of which you can see here,…
Read MoreLAMAS Online Lecture
The next LAMAS online lecture is on Tuesday 13th April at 6.30pm when Joe Brooks will present the findings of Pre-Construct Archaeology’s work within the former Adrian Boult Music Centre at Westminster School, including extensive evidence of the monastic Great Kitchen of Westminster Abbey – see image below – and the later use of the…
Read MoreCholsey update
The excavations at Cholsey, Oxfordshire are truly a joint PCA effort with staff from the Cambridge, London and Warwick offices all working as one happy team to help discover the exciting Prehistoric past of the area.
Read MoreExcavations at Cholsey, Oxfordshire
We have begun excavations at Cholsey, near Wallingford in Oxfordshire, on behalf of Bellway Homes Limited. These exciting investigations have been designed to look at how the landscape was used in Prehistory, with the geophysical survey already providing hints at the sorts of features we might expect to find.
Read MoreLAMAS 57th Annual Conference of London Archaeologists- 20th March 2021
Watch talks about Holywell Priory and Bermondsey Abbey, given to the 2021 LAMAS conference, by Matt Edmonds and Alistair Douglas, here! This year the 57th Annual Conference of the London and Middlesex Archaeology Society was held for the first time as a live Zoom meeting on 20th March.
Read MoreIndustry and Magic in Ewell, Surrey
This Friday (March the 26th) join PCA’s Becky Haslam for an online talk to Wandsworth Historical Society as she discusses the Roman and Anglo-Saxon phases of a highly significant site excavated in Ewell, Surrey in 2015.
Read MoreCongratulations Gary!
We are delighted to announce that Gary Brown has been jointly awarded the 2019-20 Ralph Merrifield Award for his contribution to London’s archaeology. At the LAMAS Conference on Saturday, the Chairman, Harvey Sheldon made the award jointly to Gary and to Nick Bateman, who recently retired from MoLA, for the huge amount of work they…
Read MoreReflectance Transformation Imaging
We’ve recently been using this innovative photographic method with amazing results. Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) is a multi-light imaging technique that enhances a subject’s shape and overall contrast to reveal fine surface relief.
Read MoreArchaeology is full of surprises!
A recent site in south Lincolnshire was known to be in an area of substantial Romano-British settlement; investigations nearby had identified Roman pottery kilns, iron furnaces and a small cemetery. So we were expecting to find Romano-British industrial and burial grounds peripheral to the main settlement areas.
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