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…

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Front-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…

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Rediscovering 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…

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‘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…

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Crystal Park, Bottisham: The Construction Materials of a Roman Villa Complex – A Cambridgeshire Case Study

[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text] Congratulations to Kevin Hayward and Christiane Meckseper, whose article on a vast amount…

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Holocene 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…

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