Cotswold Archaeology: This month marks a significant milestone for Cotswold Archaeology’s Suffolk office as we celebrate five years of CA at Suffolk. To honour this occasion, we’re taking a reflective journey back to some of our most memorable projects, led by our team at the Needham Market office, starting with our excavations at Burwell… In the summer… Read More » The post Celebrating 5 Years of Archaeological Discovery: Medieval Burwell appeared first on Cotswold Archaeology ..read more

Cotswold Archaeology: Roman hare brooch returns from conservation… This little Roman hare brooch from one of our Oxfordshire sites has leapt to our attention this Easter, having recently returned from the conservators. Hares have historically been used to symbolise fertility, spring and renewal, likely due to their excited behaviour throughout their breeding season which led to the… Read More » The post Leaping into the Easter spirit… ? appeared first on Cotswold Archaeology ..read more

Cotswold Archaeology: As one half of the Oxford Cotswold Archaeology (OCA) Team, we’re up in Cumbria with Oxford Archaeology uncovering Cumbrian history dating back 6,000 years! The A66 Northern Trans-Pennine project covers a routeway that’s been in use for nearly 10,000 years, so we’re excited but not surprised by our latest findings. We’re only halfway through the… Read More » The post Discoveries along the A66 Northern Trans-Pennine Project appeared first on Cotswold Archaeology ..read more

Cotswold Archaeology: Cotswold Archaeology commits to its first Sustainability and Carbon Reduction Plan As archaeologists we see first-hand how human behaviour impacts the environment, and the changing consequences over thousands of years. This matters just as much today as it did in the past, so we’ve committed to initiatives that advance environmental, economic, and social sustainability for… Read More » The post Cotswold Archaeology’s Carbon Reduction Plan appeared first on Cotswold Archaeology ..read more

Cotswold Archaeology: Ceolmund’s Enclosure: Middle Anglo-Saxon settlement on the Shotley Peninsula Our excavations in the village of Chelmondiston, on the Shotley Peninsula in Suffolk, have revealed archaeological finds and features of three main periods – Early Iron Age (5th to 8th centuries BC),  Middle Anglo-Saxon (8th/9th centuries AD) and late medieval (12th to 14th centuries). The site… Read More » The post Anglo-Saxon settlement in Suffolk appeared first on Cotswold Archaeology ..read more

Cotswold Archaeology: Cattle skull and cluster of quartz crystals found in a Roman enclosure at Broken Furrow In the spring of 2021, our Milton Keynes team undertook an excavation at ‘Broken Furrow’ for Orion Heritage and Kendrick Homes Ltd. The site was situated on the northern edge of Hardwick, a suburb of Banbury in Oxfordshire. The remains… Read More » The post Finds from the Roman enclosure at Broken Furrow appeared first on Cotswold Archaeology ..read more

Cotswold Archaeology: Who would have thought the Dings Crusaders Rugby Football Club ground was the location of an impressive Roman villa?  This previously unknown Roman villa was revealed by CA during works funded by Redrow Homes before the site was redeveloped for housing.   In December 2022, Current Archaeology featured the results of our work at these disused… Read More » The post Is Dings Crusaders Roman villa the best ‘Rescue Project of the Year’ ? appeared first on Cotswold Archaeology ..read more

Cotswold Archaeology: Whilst excavating at Vistry’s new residential development near Salisbury, Steve and his team uncovered a small Bronze Age barrow cemetery in an unexplored funerary landscape of over 30 ring ditches. The site is located to the south of Netherhampton Road, on the very edge of the World Heritage site of Stonehenge and the chalklands of… Read More » The post Food for thought at Netherhampton Road appeared first on Cotswold Archaeology ..read more

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