🌷 🐣 This
#Roman
brooch has leapt right out of
#Oxfordshire
and into our hearts 🐰 Featuring enamelled decoration, it's a pawsitively enchanting little running bunny, symbolising fertility, spring and renewal.
Hares bounded into Britain before the Romans, who observed that Iron
At a
#Cirencester
site, Joe has uncovered this pristine
#BronzeAge
spearhead. They're associated with Middle Bronze Age activity (1550-1250 BC), meaning this is well over 3,000 years old! More info once it's back at the office and analysed 👌
#Archaeology
#Prehistoric
#Cotswolds
Incredible 6th-century glass bead, discovered while carefully recording an
#AngloSaxon
grave. Beads like this often attached to sword pommels and did double-duty as amulets, thought to ward off injuries or death (so only sensible to keep one next to your weaponry...)
#archaeology
Excavation of partially disturbed, densely crowded graves in Weyhill,
#Hampshire
, revealed evidence of violence, punishment, and disarticulated bone from 124 individuals. It was quickly apparent that this 10th-14th century cemetery was far from normal...
Our Human Remains
Gorgeous barbed and tanged arrowhead, has to be a casual
#FridayFind
😏
Associated with an Early
#BronzeAge
ring ditch (possibly the ploughed-out remains of a barrow) it dates to c. 1500-2500 BC. Always a marvel to find these ancient objects so beautifully preserved!
#Archaeology
#CASiteTeam
uncovered this beautiful buckle at a recent
#Oxfordshire
site, in a high-status
#AngloSaxon
grave, near the individual's pelvis. It bears three inlaid stones, possibly garnets. We hope to share more on the site once analysis is able to resume!
#FridayFind
#Archaeology
A sherd of
#Roman
pottery, bearing the ghost of a 2,000-year-old fern.
The leaf pattern is likely unintentional – the fern sticking to the pot as its clay dried before firing, then burning off in the kiln, and leaving this pleasingly aesthetic impression!
#Archaeology
#Gloucester
A beautifully preserved, 2000-year-old calf skeleton, excavated in
#Suffolk
. This calf is one of many animals discovered during excavation, including several
#IronAge
dogs. Bone grouping and positioning suggests they were buried whole, with connective tissues intact.
#Archaeology
Roman bricks and a tegula (roof tile) from the
#Roman
demolition rubble of the
#Boxford
Villa! Displaying the paw prints of a cat and dog 😊 One for all those who are
#WorkingFromHome
, and whose Cat Supervisors are gleefully stepping on their keyboards...
#Archaeology
#FridayFind
(1/3) These beautiful
#AngloSaxon
disc brooches originate from a site that revealed features dating from the Iron Age through to the 3rd or 4th century and beyond. We carefully excavated over seventy Anglo Saxon burials, some containing high-status grave goods...
#Archaeology
We’re looking for field archaeologists of all levels to join any of our four offices — whether you’d be a trainee, or you’re already an experienced Senior Project Officer.
Check out
#CASiteTeam
to see the archaeology you’d get to work on, then head here to apply by 8th
In a small marshy stream in the middle of the
#Pembrokeshire
countryside,
#CASiteTeam
glimpsed this incredible
#BronzeAge
trough that after 3,000 years still looks better than most of us do after an hour in the bath. Read all about it here:
#Archaeology
🛀
This near-pristine Bronze Age spearhead is among the artefacts we’ve uncovered during the creation of a new wetland habitat in
#Gloucestershire
. This beauty is over 3,000 years old and was discovered just below the surface of a pit (1/3)
#CASiteTeam
#Cotswolds
#Archaeology
That unparalleled feeling of finding something, carefully prising it from the soil, and being the first person to see it in almost 2,000 years... This is a base sherd of pottery, dated by its fabric type to the early
#Roman
period.
#Oxfordshire
#Archaeology
#CASiteTeam
The middle
#BronzeAge
'scutching knife' mentioned in Tuesday's post. Scutching knives were used for processing fibrous plants, such as flax and nettle, to make textiles. Bronze Age textile-processing evidence is relatively rare, making this tool particularly special
#Archaeology
This is it. It's really happening. 𝙏𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙏𝙚𝙖𝙢 𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙚'𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙞𝙩!!!
#CASiteTeam
and
#TimeTeam
together with old friends, new faces, and the latest technology, have investigated a huge
#Roman
villa in
#Oxfordshire
on the estate of a Tudor castle! (1/3)
#HappyNewYear
!🎆🎉🥂
Welcoming in 2021 is this Iceni issue, gold, quarter stater of the Snettisham wreath type, dating to 50 BC–AD 10. It's an extremely rare variety - only one other example is known with the elaborately styled horse
#12DOAC
#Archaeology
This impressive
#Roman
coffin had three iron bands around it, indicating that the lead had been a liner for a wooden coffin which had rotted away. These were expensive items, used for the burial of high-status individuals
#Archaeology
#FridayFind
#CASiteTeam
#Gloucestershire
Lots of requests for info on the beautiful beaker in yesterday's recruitment ad! It's a funnel necked,
#Roman
, Lower Nene Valley colour coated ware; with a trailed white slip (‘en barbotine’) decoration of vines (swirls) and grapes ('blobs'). More here:
Look at this beauty! 👀 Gorgeous decoration and so well preserved, it's an early
#medieval
, leather, knife sheath. Top-right is a remnant of the strap that would originally have held it onto a belt.
Lovingly held here by Post-Excavation Archaeologist, Andy.
#Bristol
#Archaeology
On the 9th Day of Christmas we gifted you something incredible - a
#BronzeAge
shield. Only the 24th of its type, it was badly damaged and very corroded, but dating (1300-1125 BC) and typing (Yetholm) were still possible 🎁
#Archaeology
#Oxfordshire
#12DOAC
We've just been reminded of the time Hazel made one of the most remarkable archaeological discoveries yet seen in
#Bath
, when she uncovered a hoard of almost 17,600
#Roman
coins. The collection, known as The Beau Street Hoard, is now on display at
@RomanBathsBath
👌
#Archaeology
This pit revealed a
#BronzeAge
log ladder, hewn from a single piece of oak; a tankard-sized vessel made of stitched bark; and a wooden 'scutching knife', for processing plant fibres. The amazingly well-preserved ladder had been used to access the pit floor
#CASiteTeam
#Tewkesbury
Erm... So we've found a bone road... 😬👍 Liam and
#CASiteTeam
have been out at a 1700s
#Oxfordshire
manor house, sited over a Cisterian Abbey founded in the 1100s. Stripping back the topsoil, they weren't expecting to find an 80m trench of highly compacted animal bone... 1/2
In testament to the outstanding engineering capabilities of the Romans: A
#Roman
well, apparently still doing exactly what it was designed for.
Stone-lined. Flooded. Frozen. We politely request to come back to this one in about... April time..?🍹
#CASiteTeam
#Archaeology
#January
#Neolithic
microdenticulates – little prehistoric plant-processing blades. They both have traces of ‘sickle gloss’ which incredibly, after all these thousands of years, shows they were used on cereals and grasses. Info in our
#VirtualMuseum
:
#Archaeology
We’ve found something completely unique! — not just the ceramic building material that shows Brandiers may’ve been making tiles believed to’ve been produced elsewhere, but a whole new
#Roman
tile stamp, *never seen before*…!
#RewritingHistory
#Archaeology
#BrandiersKilnProject
Uncovered in the grave of a high-status
#Roman
female, this comb appears to have been placed as an intentional fragment. Was it all that remained of a family heirloom? Or perhaps deliberately broken off, to remain in use within her family or community?
#Archaeology
#Oxfordshire
This beautiful
#Roman
brooch once featured rings of enamel in three contrasting colours. Sadly, we can only imagine how eye-catching and covetable it would have been! Enjoy a
#3D
model in our
#VirtualMuseum
, here:
Beautifully preserved
#Roman
Severn Valley Ware, from a ditch in
#Herefordshire
; the context implied it may have been a ritual offering. Despite careful micro-excavation, sadly, any ancient remains had not survived. It was likely used for drinking or serving food🍺🥜
#Archaeology
A quick refresher of *that*
#Roman
cupid, fresh from the ground. Our conservators now have it in their excited little paws and there's a satisfying 'clean up' video coming incredibly soon... (More info here: )
#Archaeology
#Gloucestershire
#CASiteTeam
A
#Roman
radiate of Gallienus, dating to 253-268AD. The reverse (which isn't in the photo) is of an antelope and the legend Dianae Cons Avg! Freshly uncovered in
#Wiltshire
by
#CASiteTeam
's Katherine, and modelled here by the hands of the lucky Rebecca
#Archaeology
#CATeam
A copper-alloy scale set, from the grave of a high-status,
#AngloSaxon
man. Analysis of the skeletal material, together with stable isotope analysis, will provide insights into the origins, lives and status of the site's historic population
#Archaeology
#FridayFind
#Oxfordshire
Appropriately discovered at a fen-edge site in
#Suffolk
, this charming
#Roman
plate brooch was shaped as a little duck.
The coloured enamel represents a technique called champlevé, in which vitreous enamel is produced by fusing powdered coloured glass, or mixing glass with a
Immaculately preserved, two-pedestalled firing chamber of a
#Roman
pottery kiln. The kiln-geeks tell us this is a variation on the regionally well-known, single-flued ‘Wattisfield-type’. The rest of us thought it was someone stuck boot-sole up, in a hole...
#CASiteTeam
#Suffolk
1/2 Ben and Steve have uncovered this little food vessel in the central grave of one of those incredible
#BronzeAge
barrows. It’s a
#Yorkshire
type, which is rare in the south (maybe the north-south divide is older than we think…); ones with handles are rarer still.
#Archaeology
A striking
#AngloSaxon
, timber-framed building, uncovered during previous works in
#Cheltenham
. It was quite large - 11m long and 6m wide, with evidence of a porch. Pottery recovered from the postholes (up to 0.7m wide..!) helped us to date the structure.
#Archaeology
#CASiteTeam
We've got some proper old-fashioned, heart-stopping, jaw-dropping
#archaeology
! Steve and his team are out at Netherhampton,
#Wiltshire
, where they've revealed yet more of the county's incredible
#prehistoric
burial landscape... (1/3 – definitely a thread!)
On the 5th Day... Not a partridge in a pear tree, but a duck in a finds box! This gorgeous
#Roman
brooch was found at the Fen Edge in
#Suffolk
. Waterfowl were thought to represent honesty, simplicity, and resourcefulness 🦆 Read more:
#Archaeology
#12DOAC
355,000m2 of excavations. More than 100 archaeologists and office-based specialists. Over 100,000 hours excavating and curating... Close to 10,700 artefacts... Weighing in at 100kg... That's our work on the
#A417Archaeology
💪🤯
In the
#Gloucestershire
soil we’ve found
Today's gift in our
#Archaeology
12 Days of
#Christmas
is this exquisite little
#Roman
inkwell. It dates to the cusp of the 1st and 2nd centuries AD, and is the only one of its type to be found in Britain outside of London. Read more at the link:
#12DOAC
We've just released details of our
#HS2
excavation at Fleet Marston, uncovering the largest
#Roman
cemetery in
#Buckinghamshire
, with 425 burials. We can now characterise the Roman town and study its former inhabitants. More here:
#Archaeology
@oatweet
It's
#FridayFind
, so your
#Archaeology
fix is extra special. This
#AngloSaxon
sword comes from the grave of an adult; it had been placed on their left side. This incredible site revealed a number of high-status Anglo Saxon and
#Roman
burials. We'll share more info in the future..
For those who didn't get copies of The
#Roman
Rural Settlement Project trilogy, 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙞𝙩 𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙤𝙪𝙩.... Parts I & II can now be downloaded, free, from
@ADS_Update
Part I:
Part II:
Please spread the word!
#Archaeology
Fantastic
#Roman
vessel, as it was, fresh out of the ground at one of our
#Oxfordshire
sites! It's a large, funnel necked beaker, with a white slip decoration and roller-stamped decorative bands. It's a Lower Nene Valley type, dating to the 4th century AD
#Archaeology
#CASiteTeam
A
#Roman
lead casket, from a settlement site with significant funerary activity. The lead is a lining material for what would have been a wooden coffin - fragments of vitrified wood were identified, and associated coffin nails recovered
#Archaeology
#FridayFind
#CASiteTeam
We’ll be working at an exceptionally special site for the next six weeks. This woodland is the final resting place of a WWII B-17 pilot whose plane came to earth when the controls failed in 1944.
The
@dodpaa
have tasked us with recovering remains of this young man, termed MIA
Archaeologist Kylie is advocating for more options in women-shaped PPE (site clothing), that's fit for purpose in the field.
"Cotswold Archaeology provide women's PPE but there are limitations outside of their control. Women's PPE often fits badly, and doesn't accommodate for
Need something to read while you grapple with a cold, grey, January morning? Details of the
#BronzeAge
shield
#CASiteTeam
uncovered in
#Oxfordshire
have been published in
#Oxoniensia
. Gaze upon the shield's allure, then click to read more: ☕️
#CASiteTeam
's Joe has uncovered this intact
#Roman
quern stone. It appears to've been purposefully placed in a late 1st - 2nd century pit, cut into an enclosure ditch. The site lies close to a Roman settlement, so we hope to share more discoveries soon!
#Archaeology
#Wiltshire
If you're as blown away by the Netherhampton
#BronzeAge
barrow cemetery as we are, come to our next
#webinar
, Wednesday 19th July at 7.15pm, where the team will explain the site and what we know so far. Register here:
#Archaeology
#ArchaeologyForAll
A
#Roman
'crossbow' brooch, just found on site. 4th century date. The purplish corrosion suggests it may be at least partially silver. If so, we'll need to declare it as treasure and will enlist a conservator to analyse the brooch so we can determine the next steps.
#Archaeology
Burnt pits filled with fired flint are an enigmatic feature of eastern-England
#AngloSaxon
settlements. They're usually undated by finds and occur too infrequently to represent everyday activity. So what were they for? Our
#Suffolk
team think they may know
More tile desecration… We’ve started extending Trench 1 (AKA the Kiln Trench) and Jack’s immediately spotted this stunner — a
#Roman
hobnail boot print. Even Peter’s pleased, because it’s pretty rare to find these on civilian sites 👍
#BrandiersKilnProject
Look at these beauties. Just. look. at. them. 👀
From an
#Oxfordshire
site, these leaf-shaped arrowheads were last used (as far as we know...) during the Early
#Neolithic
(4000-3350 BC), and are in much better condition after all this time than we are at the end of a long week 👌
(1/3) Two significant artefacts recovered from our
#Burwell
site — an 1/8 Anna coin and armorial signet ring. It’s common to find foreign coins in Britain but, with its Persian inscriptions, this 1/8 Anna had a long trek from where it was struck, near Kolkata, India…
#FridayFind
A likely 2nd century AD plate brooch – one of the earliest findings from our
#Roman
settlement site. We can't see yet whether it's enamelled, although it probably is. Once the Finds Team have analysed this, we'll let you know the details!
#Gloucestershire
#CASiteTeam
#Archaeology
This 3rd-4th century
#Roman
dish was perfectly placed on the base of a wide ditch, suggesting it was deliberately deposited. It's of a form that's common in the
#Gloucestershire
Severn Vale, but its positioning and preservation make it a noteworthy find.
#Archaeology
#CASiteTeam
Excavations in
#Wiltshire
have revealed a later
#IronAge
settlement. This included clusters of small pits and larger storage pits, a number of which contained crouched human burials. Others contained ritual or special deposits, including this dog burial
#Archaeology
#CASiteTeam
Expertly recovered by Ben and Steve, meticulously microexcavated by Gemma, this beautiful little Yorkshire vessel hails from our Netherhampton site near Salisbury.
In a
#BronzeAge
funerary landscape of over 30 ring ditches, this was nestled near the burial of a Beaker child.
A rare and poignant find, from excavations in
#Gloucester
- a lidded lead urn, containing the cremated remains of a single adult male, aged over 35 years at the time of his death. Just 30 or so similar vessels are known in Britain.
#Gloucester
#Roman
#Archaeology
#CASiteTeam
#CASiteTeam
recovered the base of this samian cup during works in
#Cirencester
(
#Roman
Corinium). It includes the maker’s stamp of the potter Solinus, who is known to have worked at the production site at Lezoux, Central Gaul, c. AD 170-200
#Archaeology
While excavating a site 2.5km to the north of the Roman town of Alchester (considered to have been the principal Roman settlement in
#Oxfordshire
),
#CASiteTeam
have uncovered a settlement that spans the Middle
#IronAge
to early
#Roman
periods
#Archaeology
Stunning aerial shot of excavations in
#Hertfordshire
, which revealed a lost
#prehistoric
and
#Roman
landscape. Infilled boundary ditches enclose ancient fields and paddocks. The dark area was once a shallow pond, subsequently filled with rich, Roman domestic rubbish
#Archaeology
Fragment of a Samian bowl, imported from Gaul. Although worn, the decoration shows a border of ovolo design and panels below - one with a standing figure, possibly female. Such vessels were imported between the late-1st and 3rd centuries AD
#CASiteTeam
#Oxfordshire
#Archaeology
Friday's gold-gilt plate brooch originated from a site with well over 70
#AngloSaxon
burials, many of which were high-status. 7 pairs were found in 7 separate graves, either positioned on each shoulder or adjacent on the left shoulder, with an associated clothing pin
#Archaeology
Since it's Monday and the trends are a tad depressing we thought we'd treat you to some close-ups of the stunning
#Boxford2019
mosaic... Hopefully this will brighten your feeds! At worst, at least you're not an unsuccessful suitor for Hippodomeia...
#Roman
#Archaeology
#Berkshire
Stunning
#drone
photographs, from our
#Hampshire
site, perfectly display the fantastic archaeology we've uncovered - a whole Bronze Age barrow cemetery with an associated mortuary enclosure, as well as finds and several other ritualistic features!
#Britisharchaeology
#CASiteTeam
In the culvert, Chloe’s found a tile with a deer print accompanied by a
#Roman
shoe print. What went on here?! Who chased who? Or did they run across the tileworks together? This tile has stories… 🦌
#BrandiersKilnProject
#Archaeology
Time Team is back! And our CEO Neil Holbrook is returning as Archaeological Supervisor, leading the
#Roman
villa dig at Broughton Castle!! Check out the full 'Dig Watch' video: or skip to 11:30 and prepare to swoon...
#TooExcited
#TimeTeam
@theTimeTeam
This week's
#FridayFind
is not in fact a £1 charity shop offering, it's actually an
#AngloSaxon
glass bowl! Fragmented on discovery, it was painstakingly recovered during Exercise Shallow Grave, and now reconstructed by Finds Officer, Katie
#OpNightingale
#CASiteTeam
#Archaeology
Will’s the Man of the Moment right now — he’s uncovered this big, largely intact
#Roman
box flue tile in Trench 2’s clay extraction pit, and dug out all the sherds he could find. Cassie and The Finds Team have had a good go at a reconstruction!
#BrandiersKilnProject
#Archaeology
Bit of
#AngloSaxon
gold to brighten up Tuesday! Publications Officer Chris Fern will be giving a webinar on the incredible
#StaffordshireHoard
, why and how it ended up in the heart of Mercia, and who may have buried it... Get your ticket here:
#Archaeology
Fresh from the ground, here's a rather lovely example of a TPFP stamp on a
#Roman
tegula roof tile from Trench 3 at the
#BrandiersKilnProject
. There are six different known dies for this stamp, but who knows.....we may even discover some stamps we haven't seen before🤔🧐
A small selection of the images taken by our Illustrators Aleks and Lucy, when they photographed hundreds of exquisite artefacts for the
#StaffordshireHoard
artefact catalogue. These items are absolutely, mind-blowingly, beautiful... (1/3)
#AngloSaxon
#Archaeology
#FridayFind
A team of almost 150 people – community volunteers, active-duty US military, UK military veterans, and cohorts from
#OperationNightingale
– have been undertaking fundamental work for our B-17 pilot recovery with
@DODPAA
.
Together, we've found around 5,000 fragments of the plane
How exquisite is this brooch? Forged in copper alloy in the earliest part of the British
#Roman
period, it’s a ‘Mackreth’s Aesica’. It was found in a Roman ditch — imagine the heartache at losing it! Info in our
#VirtualMuseum
:
#Fancy
#Archaeology
#CA_VM
It's Monday, so here's a bit of a mood booster! - This is a
#Roman
spoon, made from copper alloy, recovered by
#CASiteTeam
during works in
#Wiltshire
. It's pear-shaped - a type that appears to have been in production by the first half of the 2nd century AD.
#Archaeology
Never mind Meet the Ancestors, what about meet your heroes?! — We’ve got the wonderful Julian Richards here at
#BrandiersKilnProject
today, bringing a bit of star quality and some honest interpretations 👌Thinking of trading Anton in… What do you think?… 🤔🤩
#NoYoureStarStruck