In category: General posts

Over the past couple of weeks, two enormous trenches have been opened up on site, one over the main villa range, and another over a series of ancillary buildings. These will be the focus of excavations over the next nine weeks. Since Wednesday, around 65 first year university students, all studying for archaeology degrees at […]

We will be borrowing a 13-seater Tiverton Community Minibus for each of our open days. This will run a free service between Tiverton, the excavation site and Cullompton, for older residents and those will disabilities who would otherwise find it difficult to visit the site. There will be two return journeys, morning and afternoon, each […]

During the second half of April, Cotswold Archaeology and a team of existing TAG and SPS members undertook some small-scale excavations on site, to provide more information about what we might expect to find in the summer, and to help us locate our large open-area trenches in the best place. Two trial (or ‘evaluation’) trenches […]

We have now run three community events, to provide information for local people about the project and encourage volunteers. Thanks to all the volunteers from TAG and SPS who helped to organise and run these events. Thanks especially to John Hill for bringing along his finds, and to Olly, our Roman centurion! Friday 6 February, […]

We’re pleased to announce that the SHARE project has appointed our main archaeology contractor, Cotswold Archaeology. They will be leading the community excavations, including volunteer training, and overseeing the analysis and writing up of everything we find, in the ‘post-excavation’ stage of the project. Cotswold Archaeology are one of the largest archaeological contractors in Britain […]

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our project. Please see our press release on the University of Exeter website.