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Cholsey update

By Cate Davies / 08/04/2021 / Comments Off on Cholsey 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.

Excavations at Cholsey, Oxfordshire

By Cate Davies / 01/04/2021 / Comments Off on Excavations 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.

LAMAS 57th Annual Conference of London Archaeologists- 20th March 2021

By Cate Davies / 25/03/2021 / Comments Off on LAMAS 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.

Industry and Magic in Ewell, Surrey

By Cate Davies / 23/03/2021 / Comments Off on Industry 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.

Congratulations Gary!

By Cate Davies / 22/03/2021 / Comments Off on Congratulations 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…

Reflectance Transformation Imaging

By Cate Davies / 03/03/2021 / Comments Off on Reflectance 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.

Archaeology is full of surprises!

By Cate Davies / 01/03/2021 / Comments Off on Archaeology 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.

Thoughts of Mars

By Cate Davies / 22/02/2021 / Comments Off on Thoughts of Mars

The new images of the Red Planet from NASA’s Perseverance rover bring to mind our discovery of a major temple complex at Tabard Square, Southwark, a site occupying an important strategic position on the approach road to Londinium from ports to the south-east.

Cosmopolitan Late Iron Age Suffolk

By Cate Davies / 15/02/2021 / Comments Off on Cosmopolitan Late Iron Age Suffolk

Roman leopard found in Suffolk snow

By Cate Davies / 11/02/2021 / Comments Off on Roman leopard found in Suffolk snow