Oh, you thought we forgot about you? No, no, it’s just been a busy few weeks getting back into our day jobs! But never fear, we’ve got the Week 4 round-up, and later a student reflection and Graeme…

This week we chugged along, even when the weather was less than cooperative! On one particularly rainy morning, Graeme gave an updated version of his Bowl Hole (burial ground) lecture integrating t…

We had a very busy week, so apologies for the lack of blog updates. We’ve finally made it through the modern and Victorian rubbish to sealed archaeology! Our enviro team began flotation, both…

It’s one of our favourite parts of the season: we got to host some of the winners of the Young Archaeologists’ Club yearly Dig It! contest! Amelia, Aiden, and Ania (yes, we noticed and …

Our first week of the season was blessed by wonderful weather (if a bit hot), so we made great progress in the trenches, finds washing, and enviro sorting. Regarding the latter two, the students in…

*KLAXON* Romano-British Finds from Old Trench 3! In 2020, with covid and lockdown, we were unable to run the field school for one final season in Trench 3. Instead, we contracted commercial archaeo…

No, you’re not seeing double: we’ve got two clay pipe bowls with the same maker’s mark! …Or do we? Both of these clay tobacco pipe bowls, likely from the mid to late 19th ce…

Hello everyone! Yes, we know we’ve made you wait just a little longer into the summer than usual, but we have it on good authority that this is going to be a fantastic season! We’ve got mater…