Posts by Cate Davies
Front-Cover Find: A Medieval Bone Flute from Huntingdon
The Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society (PCAS) Volume CXIV features PCA on the front cover once again, this time with a striking find from Huntingdon: a medieval bone flute made from a pig’s tibia. While bone flutes were common in the medieval period, they were usually carved from sheep or goat tibiae, or the…
Read MoreRediscovering Little End
An article by Isobel Woolhouse has just been published in Current Archaeology, exploring the traces of Little End, a small hamlet that once stood on the edge of Eaton Socon, Cambridgeshire. Though long lost beneath modern development, the community has re-emerged through PCA’s recent excavations. The work reveals a cluster of modest cottages from the…
Read MoreCBA Autumn London Archaeological Forum 2025
From Roman engineering to forgotten medieval estates and the people behind the bones, this autumn’s London Archaeological Forum (LAF) brings together three very different glimpses into the city’s deep past. Tuesday 18 November 2025, 6pmUCL Institute of Archaeology, Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY . Jessica Bryan, Project Officer at MOLA, will discuss “MOLA excavations at…
Read MoreA Weekend at St Mary’s, Houghton
We were delighted to return to St Mary’s Church, Houghton, last weekend to share the findings from our recent below-ground works with the local community. The talk, by Michael Joyce and Will Stafford, explored the history of the church and the surrounding area, drawing connections between the archaeological discoveries and the village’s medieval past. The…
Read MoreA New Chapter for PCA
As of 31 December 2025, there will be changes to the Board of Directors at PCA. Josephine Brown shall be stepping down from her role as Managing Director and retiring from PCA. Gary Brown will at the same time be retiring from PCA and from the Board. It is their intention that the company continues…
Read MoreLithic Studies Society 2025: Early Neolithic Discoveries from West Suffolk
Laura Desrosiers-Whalley and Lawrence Morgan-Shelbourne will be presenting at the Lithic Studies Society Conference this week, discussing preliminary findings from our recent excavations at West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St Edmunds. The 2024 fieldwork revealed a sealed Early Neolithic midden deposit rich in flint and pottery, offering an exceptional glimpse into activity around 3800 BC. From…
Read MorePCA at the Tower of London on Channel 5
PCA’s recent excavation at the Tower of London will feature in this week’s episode of Inside the Tower of London, Season 8, Episode 2, airing on Channel 5, Thursday 6 November at 8pm. The excavation, led by Guy Seddon, took place inside the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula ahead of a planned lift installation.…
Read MoreFirst Street South: Connecting People and Place
A quick update: our public information board for Plot 9a, First Street South, Manchester is now up on site. It shares details of the archaeological work carried out ahead of Ask’s development of this major office building, which will be the Government Property Agency (GPA) new hub in Manchester. It’s great to see it in place,…
Read MoreMK ARCHAEOLOGY DAY 2025
Join us this Saturday for Milton Keynes Archaeology Day! PCA will be out in force at this year’s event, with a full display and hands-on activities in the morning, plus an afternoon talk by Mark Hinman, Judy Mlynarska and Jenn Hulse:“Cups, Coins, and Cows: Unravelling the Late Iron Age at MK East.” When: 1 November…
Read MoreBermondsey Square: Prehistoric and Roman Settlement, Medieval Abbey and Post-Medieval Mansion
Alistair Douglas will be presenting PCA’s work at Bermondsey Square in a lecture hosted by LAMAS next month. Date: 11 November 2025 Time: 18:30–19:30 Venue: Lecture Theatre G6, Institute of Archaeology, UCL, 31-34 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PY The lecture will be available via zoom as well as in person, click here to book . Alistair’s lecture…
Read MoreA11 and Wangford Warren Excavations at the Suffolk Institute Autumn Conference
We’re pleased to share that Tom Woolhouse and Tom Lucking will be speaking at the Wheeler Conference 2025, organised by the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology & History, on Saturday 18 October. This year’s theme Re-envisaging Suffolk’s Past: New Discoveries from Development-led Archaeology brings together some of the most recent and significant fieldwork from across the…
Read More26th Annual BABAO Conference
PCA has worked on burial sites for more than thirty years, uncovering thousands of skeletons across Britain. Most reflect expected health patterns, but every so often individuals with striking and uncommon pathologies emerge. At the 26th Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO) this week (18-20 September), PCA osteologists James…
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