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PRESS RELEASE: By the Medway Marsh

By Cate Davies / 23/02/2022 / Comments Off on PRESS RELEASE: By the Medway Marsh

Extraordinary Roman silver-extraction found at landmark mausoleum

Arbor City Hotel Aldgate: third ‘find of the week’

By Cate Davies / 21/02/2022 / Comments Off on Arbor City Hotel Aldgate: third ‘find of the week’

Medieval Whitechapel is coming to life in No.3 of the ‘Find of the Week’ series on McAleer & Rushe’s site at the Arbor City Hotel! This rowel spur dates from the 15th-17th century. Could this have been lost by a horse rider on the adjacent Whitechapel Highway?

Prehistory in Plumstead

By Cate Davies / 18/02/2022 / Comments Off on Prehistory in Plumstead

Our excavations in Plumstead are ongoing, with our search for the palaoechannel known from an adjacent site, and potential Neolithic trackways, continuing. This flint came out of the base of the peat sequence just above the interface with the blue/grey Lower Alluvium at the bottom of the section photograph (below). It’s a decortication flake struck…

Recent Archaeological Excavations at Pirton – a lecture by Mark Hinman

By Cate Davies / 18/02/2022 / Comments Off on Recent Archaeological Excavations at Pirton – a lecture by Mark Hinman

Mark will be giving an online talk to the Combined Hertfordshire Archaeological Societies on March 7th.

Arbor City Hotel Aldgate: second ‘find of the week’

By Cate Davies / 11/02/2022 / Comments Off on Arbor City Hotel Aldgate: second ‘find of the week’

Our second ‘find of the week’ from McAleer & Rushe’s site at Arbor City Hotel in London Aldgate: more Medieval decorated, glazed tile, but as yet no sign of the building they come from!

Roman sheep skeletons: an update

By Cate Davies / 07/02/2022 / Comments Off on Roman sheep skeletons: an update

The sheep skeletons we found recently, at a Roman settlement-edge site in the Fens in Cambridgeshire, have been cleaned and lifted with the help of Kevin Rielly, PCA’s animal bone specialist. The first count of MNI’s (minimum number of individuals) on site was up to 25 individuals. The skeletons were all females of various ages…

Welcome Daniel!

By Cate Davies / 07/02/2022 / Comments Off on Welcome Daniel!

We’re delighted to welcome a new Regional manager to the Durham office.

Prehistoric peat in Plumstead

By Cate Davies / 07/02/2022 / Comments Off on Prehistoric peat in Plumstead

We currently have an evaluation underway at a site in Plumstead, Greenwich, where we’re investigating the geoarchaeological deposits of the Thames in a prehistoric peat bog and hoping to find evidence of early Neolithic activity.

Find of the week!

By Cate Davies / 04/02/2022 / Comments Off on Find of the week!

We are undertaking archaeological investigations for McAleer & Rushe at Arbor City Hotel in London Aldgate and our first ‘Find of the Week’ from this site is a decorated glazed Medieval floor tile.

Tales from the Vault

By Cate Davies / 04/02/2022 / Comments Off on Tales from the Vault

We’re pleased to add another monograph to our publications page: ‘Tales from the Vault and other Newington Horror Stories’, by Alexis Haslam, is an archaeological and historical study of Elephant and Castle’s underworld.