Published Articles
Sunderland SSTC3 Published in Archaeologia Aeliana
We are pleased to announce the publication of our article, The History and Archaeology of the Wear Flint Glass Works, Trimdon Street, Sunderland (1853–1877) by John Shepherd, in Archaeologia Aeliana. The paper presents the results of archaeological investigations undertaken in advance of the Sunderland Strategic Transport Corridor Phase 3 (SSTC3). PCA carried out a programme…
Read MoreFront-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 More‘Surprises from the Roman frontier’ published
Scott Vance’s article on Turret 3a of Hadrian’s Wall is now out in the 400th edition of Current Archaeology. In ‘Surprises from the Roman frontier: Excavating Hadrian’s Wall in urban Tyneside’ Scott details our investigations in the summer of 2021 which revealed not only the first turret to be uncovered along the Wall in over…
Read MoreCrystal Park, Bottisham: The Construction Materials of a Roman Villa Complex – A Cambridgeshire Case Study
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Read MoreHolocene Climate Change and Human Impact
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…
Read MoreBridewell Revisited: Finds From A Lost Palace
An article detailing the results of our excavations at Dorset Rise in the City of London, by Douglas Killock, has just been published online.
Read MorePost-box incendiarism is a far cry from archaeology…
… but our environmental specialist, Jane Wheeler, is one of the winners of the British Association for Local History Research and Publication Awards for 2022!
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