We’re so excited to share the next step in the Digging for Erlestoke journey with you… 📖 ✍️ When excavations began in 2023, we made sure to capture the process on film. 📽️ You can now hear firsthand from the men at HMP Erlestoke, what it meant to them to be included in excavations and what they uncovered during the 4 week project funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Watch our team guide them through an archaeological dig from start to finish and hear what effect the project had, not j
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We’re so excited to share the next step in the Digging for Erlestoke journey with you… 📖 ✍️ When excavations began in 2023, we made sure to capture the process on film. 📽️ You can now hear firsthand from the men at HMP Erlestoke, what it meant to them to be included in excavations and what they uncovered during the 4 week project funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Watch our team guide them through an archaeological dig from start to finish and hear what effect the project had, not j
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Go team! After c. 3500 years in the ground, a new chapter begins for our urn from a recently discovered Bronze Age barrow in Derbyshire. Found inverted and lifted intact, preservation of the burnt bone contents should be v. high, and so provide lots of info on the person (or people) interred within. | Wessex Archaeology
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Go team! After c. 3500 years in the ground, a new chapter begins for our urn from a recently discovered Bronze Age barrow in Derbyshire. Found inverted and lifted intact, preservation of the burnt bone contents should be v. high, and so provide lots of info on the person (or people) interred within. | Wessex Archaeology
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We're back excavating the site of Sheffield Castle! | Wessex Archaeology
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We're back excavating the site of Sheffield Castle! | Wessex Archaeology
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The Salisbury Sites: 40 years of Wessex Archaeology excavations
The Salisbury Sites: 40 years of Wessex Archaeology excavations
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During our latest excavation at Sheffield Castle, we expected to find one cementation furnace... 🕵️ But as the dig progressed the team found something completely unexpected. For the first time in this steel city, two furnaces beneath one chimney were revealed, built into the remains of the castle.🤩 Join Ash and Izzy as they take us through the latest excavations at #SheffieldCastle. 🏰 Sheffield City Council | Keltbray #SheffieldHistory #MedievalHistory | Wessex Archaeology
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During our latest excavation at Sheffield Castle, we expected to find one cementation furnace... 🕵️ But as the dig progressed the team found something completely unexpected. For the first time in this steel city, two furnaces beneath one chimney were revealed, built into the remains of the castle.🤩 Join Ash and Izzy as they take us through the latest excavations at #SheffieldCastle. 🏰 Sheffield City Council | Keltbray #SheffieldHistory #MedievalHistory | Wessex Archaeology
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Take a closer look at our #SheffieldCastle dig with these NEW 3D models! 🏰⛏️ 👉 Medieval castle walls, one of the highlights of our excavations so far. Made up from rough sandstone blocks and around 2 metres thick, it may have formed part of an external defensive wall. 👉 Two cementation furnaces used in steel production. These were built into a large sandstone structure, likely formed of medieval stonework from the former castle. 👉 A slaughterhouse storage room, part of the so-called ‘Killing
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Take a closer look at our #SheffieldCastle dig with these NEW 3D models! 🏰⛏️ 👉 Medieval castle walls, one of the highlights of our excavations so far. Made up from rough sandstone blocks and around 2 metres thick, it may have formed part of an external defensive wall. 👉 Two cementation furnaces used in steel production. These were built into a large sandstone structure, likely formed of medieval stonework from the former castle. 👉 A slaughterhouse storage room, part of the so-called ‘Killing
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Virtual Reality experience an excavation below Bath Abbey
Virtual Reality experience an excavation below Bath Abbey
Jun 18, 2020
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That feeling of excitement when your trench actually comes up with something! 😍 ⛏️ Here’s Patty, one of our field team, digging on a suspected Iron Age settlement in rural Lincolnshire.🌾 It’s amazing to think that this pottery sherd has been lying undiscovered for millennia… Patty’s ‘find of the day’ is currently with our specialists for further analysis. 🧐 | Wessex Archaeology
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Watch as Izzy excavates a Bronze Age Beaker pot! 🤩 You may remember we recently found a prehistoric barrow and a number of beautifully decorated pots from the Beaker period on our dig in Hampshire. ⚱️ Luckily for us, Jenny picked up a camera and made sure to film the moment Izzy excavated this incredible prehistoric artefact… | Wessex Archaeology
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On this #TransformationTuesday, we're delighted to bring you some exciting time lapse footage of the Neolithic House Build at Butser Ancient Farm! This short clip shows the creation of the distinctive 'hog's back' of the roof. Get a unique behind-the-scenes view of the reconstruction of this fascinating structure with the full video, available now: https://youtu.be/5kQTGiIVpkY #Neolithic #NeolithicHouse #StoneAge #archaeology #reconstruction #construction #experimentalarchaeology #experientialar
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This gentle dance of weighing and bagging cleaned artefacts is an essential part of Finds Processing. The weight and quantity is recorded in the first step of our specialist's analysis. We find the process #OddlySatisfying Sound on for maximum enjoyment #asmr #archaeology #history #FindsDepartment | Wessex Archaeology
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‘They made a seriously good contribution.’ The men from HMP Erlestoke worked alongside many of our experts as they progressed through the project including Phil Harding, best known for his regular appearances on #TimeTeam. 👷📺 During his visit, Phil helped the men appreciate the significance of their discoveries and their fantastic contribution to the archaeological record. ✍️ Watch the full #DiggingForErlestoke film on our YouTube. 👇 youtu.be/QpRkgjoa79M | Wessex Archaeology
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Gentle washing and massaging helps to separate environmental samples and release the charred and light materials. It’s spellbinding, and we hope you find it #OddlySatisfying! 🌟 By carefully examining and processing environmental samples, our archaeologists gain insights into our ancestors' climate, vegetation, landscapes, and diet. 🍃 What archaeological process would you like to see us share next? #ASMR | Wessex Archaeology
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Wessex Archaeology, with support from the National Trust, have made their first feature-length documentary called ‘Beyond the Stones’ which celebrates the 35th anniversary of the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site. ‘Beyond the Stones’ focuses on our connection to the World Heritage Site landscape through people, communities, and journeys – both now and in the past. We’ll explore what we can learn from more recent excavations within the Stonehenge landscape at sites like Bulford and Larkh
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The fascinating story of The Moors at Arne continues! 🏺 We have uncovered the remains of an industrial-scale Roman pottery production site near to Poole Harbour, as part of ongoing work with Kier, Environment Agency, RSPB England and Natural England to adapt over 150 hectares of land into a diverse wetlands habitat. A whopping 17,000 fragments of pottery and two kilns have been uncovered that tell us the Romans were making a type of pottery on this site called Black Burnished ware, fitting into
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Today we launch #OddlySatisfying archaeology! Step into our environmental archaeology lab and experience the soothing sounds and sights of the flotation tank. Watch as charred plant remains like seeds float to the top of the tank, and samples are carefully collected for archaeobotanical assessment and analysis. Relax, unwind, and let the oddly satisfying archaeology guide your senses. Sound on for maximum relaxation! #ASMR | Wessex Archaeology
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We need your help! 🤩 We’d love to hear about your experiences and thoughts on archaeology. So, whether you work in archaeology, have an interest in it, or just fancy sharing your views, please tell us what you think in our 2-minute voice note survey. 👇 Take part using a smartphone or computer: https://ow.ly/Rk4N50UnrOP | Wessex Archaeology
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HS2 Archaeology Update: Uncovering Coleshill - Episode 1 - Introduction to the site
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⚓ ‘The past in Sanday is constantly with you...’ ⚓ A total of 20 community researchers and Orkney locals joined our maritime archaeology experts to become wreck detectives and uncover the identity of the ‘Sanday Wreck’. With their help and newly acquired skills, we have learned not only about the fascinating history of the Earl of Chatham, but also gained an insight into community life on Sanday in the 1780s and their unusually hospitable approach to wrecks and their mariners on the island. The
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Discover one of the oldest and most complete wooden tools ever found in Britain
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Recent evidence has securely tied the construction of Sheffield Castle’s motte to the Norman period, all thanks to the remains of a fire. But how did archaeologists go about dating a patch of burnt ground? Enter the mind-boggling world of archaeomagnetic dating... Whilst radiocarbon dating uses the decay of carbon in archaeological remains, archaeomagnetic dating looks at their magnetic properties. When we burn materials, the iron content reorients itself towards magnetic North. Since we know th
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Heritage Technology: Photogrammetry at Bedminster
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The Viking archaeology of the beautiful island of Sollerön in Sweden makes the cut in our favourite top 10 projects of 2022! Our team headed out to Sollerön, the largest island in Lake Siljan, Dalarna, to undertake geophysical surveys in the hope of answering unsolved mysteries about the island’s Viking Age past. The team set out to identify where the inhabitants in the Viking period lived in relation to their graves, find any clues to verify the use of the site as a ’sacrificial’ or ‘cult place
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Ruby really struck gold with this one! Okay not actual gold, but equally as exciting – a Bronze Age Beaker pot! ⚱️ Our team in Hampshire were thrilled to uncover a prehistoric barrow and a number of beautifully decorated pots from the Beaker period, along with barbed and tanged arrowheads and stone wristguards. These are now back at the lab with our specialists for further analysis and we can’t wait to find out more... | Wessex Archaeology
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Over 40 years of archaeological research at your fingertips, Wessex Archaeology’s #OpenLibrary is LIVE. 🎉🥂 Tens of thousands of hours of specialist research Over 500 experts from osteologists☠️ to numismatists🪙 230 archaeological and built heritage sites and counting 155 reports 75 books, (some of which are out print) And one site with some very unique Bronze Age Mortuary rites Did we mention zero paywalls? 💅 We have created this free online library to ensure our research is available to as
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The people have spoken! We dug into the data and found your 5 favourite artefacts of 2024… 🪮 A decorated bone comb from an Anglo-Saxon cemetery, complete with lice and eggs. It was discovered near the person’s waist and was probably once held within a bag which hasn’t survived. ⚱️ Decorated Iron Age pottery, found alongside four roundhouses. One sherd had some curiously crude doodles, were these markings made by a child or simply first attempts? 🪙 This token, known as a Nuremberg jetton, was f
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⭐️ Amazing news! ⭐️ Our Sheffield Castle dig has been nominated for Current Archaeology Magazine ‘Rescue Project of the Year’ 2025! 🏰 If you like what we’ve been doing, have enjoyed our content or attended one of our talks on the castle – please vote for us! 🤩 We’ve been blown away by your support and the passion of the local community, who have been with us every step of the way as we recover this vital part of Sheffield’s heritage. 🫶 Vote by 10 February 2025: https://ow.ly/qI0K50UpSli Sheff
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