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A Drone’s-Eye View of Roman Gloucestershire
This footage captures Phase 2 of PCA’s excavation at Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, part of a phased programme of archaeological work being carried out for EDP, on behalf of Spitfire Bespoke Homes Ltd. The site is revealing a Romano-British ladder enclosure system on the edge of settlement. The adjacent area (Phase 1) has already been excavated and…
Read MoreGiant Spider Conch
This large conch shell was recently found in a 19th- or early 20th-century deposit at a site in Shadwell, E1W. It’s been identified as a Giant Spider Conch (Lambis truncata truncata), a subspecies found in the tropical and subtropical Indian Ocean. At 34cm long, this specimen is close to the species’ maximum size of around…
Read MoreMesolithic Tranchet Axe
This week’s #FindsFriday is a Mesolithic tranchet axe from a site near Chichester. Tranchet axes were essential tools in the Mesolithic, used for woodworking and other daily tasks. This one was found in a pit beside four parallel curvilinear features dating to the Early Bronze Age. The site revealed evidence of thousands of years of activity,…
Read MoreSilver Fibula
This week’s #FindsFriday is a silver fibula brooch from a Roman rubbish pit in Gloucestershire. The same pit yielded a wealth of finds, including Roman pottery, animal bone, and ceramic building material, alongside a small copper alloy pin and two pieces of copper alloy wire. Initially, patches of verdigris from the copper objects clung to…
Read MoreNeolithic Cremation Burial
PCA has made a remarkable discovery at Monksfields in Cambridgeshire – a Middle Neolithic cremation burial, the first ever recorded on the western Cambridgeshire claylands and only the second known in the county. Such burials remain a rare and poorly recognised phenomenon in the UK. The cremated remains of two people, an adolescent or adult…
Read MoreLAMAS 61st Annual Conference
The LAMAS (London and Middlesex Archaeology Society) annual conference will be a hybrid event again this year – in person at the Museum of London Docklands, with an option watch the lectures online. It takes place on Saturday 15th March, and tickets are now available here. Harry Platts will be presenting the results of PCA…
Read MoreDigging the Cotswolds
PCA Warwick have just started work on a site on the outskirts of a popular tourist town in the Cotswolds, and it’s already looking promising! The team are currently getting a handle on which of the features are real and which not but already they have uncovered worked bone pins, a glass bead and Romano-British…
Read MoreIron Age antler pick
This week’s #FindsFriday is an antler pick, a tool most commonly associated with the Neolithic period, where they were used to quarry stone and dig the ground for the construction of monuments like Stonehenge. However, this example from Suffolk was found in a pit alongside late Iron Age pottery. In the Neolithic period, antler picks…
Read MoreWorld Book Day
It’s World Book Day! For today only, get 20% off all our publications. Our monograph series offers in-depth accounts of major excavations, while our Occasional Papers explore smaller projects and thematic connections across sites. Looking for something more accessible? Our fully illustrated booklets bring discoveries to life in a visually engaging way. Shop here: https://test.pre-construct.com/publications/…
Read MoreFind of the Week
Here’s Timothy, from the team working at the Tower of London, with a medieval gunstone – what a place to find one! This roughly shaped stone projectile was probably destined for a cannon, but since bore sizes varied, it would have been finished to fit the chosen gun. Gunstones were a vital part of medieval…
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