Posts by Cate Davies
Another week, another mystery!
The ongoing excavations at Cholsey have been nothing if not engaging. Even though it is clear that we are away from any areas of occupation, this managed landscape was obviously of importance with offerings being given to the Gods.
Read MoreCeremony and settlement in rural Norfolk
Our nationally significant site at Hopton-on-Sea, Norfolk, features in a fascinating article by Mike Pitts in the latest (May/June) edition of British Archaeology. The site lay in an area of extensive cropmarks, previously studied as part of the National Mapping Program (NMP) of the Norfolk Coastal Zone. Our findings brought details of this study into…
Read MoreCelebrate 50 years of official sherdnerding!
The Study Group for Roman Pottery are celebrating their 50th anniversary with a FREE two-day conference, open to members and non-members.
Read MoreA 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,…
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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.
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