Tagged: archaeology

Over the past four weeks, the students have found a lot of pottery which will help with dating and perhaps in future we’ll be able to use ceramic residue analysis to find out what foods were being cooked or stored within them. This includes a lovely ‘indented beaker’, used for serving drinks, painted pottery and […]

Now that the University of Exeter fieldschool has ended, we can update you on some of the key discoveries and finds so far. The main villa (Area 1) Despite the challenging weather, the students have worked hard to uncover the full layout of the villa building. We now understanding that the first villa was a […]

Volunteer Dave Hennings has made a fantastically detailed film revealing the discoveries made during our two-week April excavation season:

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’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 […]