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In the summer of 2021 our Durham office was lucky enough to discover Hadrian’s Wall in urban Tyneside. Excitingly, we found Turret 3a, perhaps the largest yet discovered, and the northern defensive ditch and six berm obstacle pits. Scott Vance will present our findings at the forthcoming Current Archaeology Live! conference, which will be held…
Alex Beeby was ‘one of the highlights’ at Waddington All Saints Academy Ancient Greek Day last week with a talk about archaeology. His visit went so well one of the kids said it was the best day of his life! Well done Alex (although it looks as if you could have tried harder with your…
When: Saturday March 18th 2023 Where: Storey’s Field Centre, Eddington Avenue,Cambridge, CB3 1AA Cost: £10 at door (members, diggers, students) £15 for non-members (all the more reason to join!) . The forthcoming CAS conference will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of Sir Cyril Fox’s The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region, covering themes and archaeology relevant…
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Originally from York, since 2003 Stephen has been employed by the University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS) on numerous multi-period urban and rural excavations, developing a solid fieldwork and post-excavation speciality in complex multi-period deeply stratified urban excavations in the city of Leicester, and directing urban sites exclusively for the last 10 or so years.…
The Rank Hovis Premier Mill is an important survivor of the now almost vanished industrial history of the London Docklands. Described by the Evening Standard as a ‘decaying industrial anachronism standing defiant and alone in the surrounding subtopia’ the complex has become an icon of post-industrial Britain, and has a long and varied past. It…
Thanks to Professor Neil Christie for this great review published in Medieval Archaeology Volume 66.2 (Dec 2022). By the Medway Marsh by James Gerrard and Guy Seddon is available to purchase here . A few kilometres north of Watling Street and close to the Roman town of Rochester in N Kent, excavations by Pre-Construct Archaeology at…
Our Head of Environment Jane Wheeler is the first to publish an article this year, with a paper for the open-access journal Quaternary MDPI, co-written by Katherine A. Selby and Sally Derrett from the Universities of York and Sheffield respectively. The dramatically shifting climate of the early- to mid-Holocene period coincided with population expansion in…
Last week Sian (Finds, Environmental and Archiving Manager at PCA Cambridge) took part in a ‘Careers Carousel’ event at Swavesey Village College, with a presentation to five classes of Year 9s about archaeology as a career. ‘Form the Future’ is a community interest company set up to help young people discover exciting opportunities for the…