When we broke ground at Showell Nurseries, just outside Chippenham, we expected to uncover a few scattered prehistoric features. What we found instead was a rich, multi-phase barrow cemetery, revealing Bronze Age burial practices and beliefs that have helped to illuminate the lives (and deaths) of those who lived here around 4,000 years ago. Barrow… Read More »| Cotswold Archaeology
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Our excavations at Centre Severn, Barnwood, have uncovered human activity from the 2nd-4th centuries AD, including a large Roman limekiln.| Cotswold Archaeology
Cotswold Archaeology: In 2018 and 2019 we excavated along a new 6km long pipeline between Childrey Warren and Wantage in Oxfordshire. The new route ran within the distinctive landscape of the Vale of the White Horse towards the foot of the Berkshire Downs. It travelled in a north-east to south-west direction, crossing gently rolling hills and agricultural… Read More » The post Mesolithic antlers, Roman family cemeteries, and Saxon surprises: Archaeology along the Childrey Warren Pipeline a...| Cotswold Archaeology
The umbrella arch is a temporary support system forming a structural umbrella from the insertion of an assortment of longitudinal support members installed from within the tunnel, above and around … Continue reading →|
Drill and blast method is mostly used method for the excavation throughout the world. The method can be used in all types of rocks and the initial cost is lower … Continue reading →|
A prestressed grouted ground anchor is a structural element installed in soil or rock that is used to transmit an applied tensile load into the ground. Grouted ground anchors, referenced simply … Continue reading →|
Diaphragm wall is a continuous wall constructed in ground in to facilitate certain construction activities, such as: As a retaining wall As a cut-off provision to support deep excavation As … Continue reading →|
The New Austrian Tunneling method (NATM) was developed between 1957 and 1965 in Austria. It was given its name in Salzburg in 1962 to distinguish it from old Austrian tunnelling … Continue reading →|
Following the IASSRT symposium, we are publishing a series of posts showcasing the papers most relevant to the Nara to Norwich project. This abstract is by Orit Shamir and her colleagues, on silk fragments from south and east found in the eastern Mediterranean.| Nara to Norwich
The Later Prehistoric Norfolk Project examines the similarities and differences between the extremities of Eurasia in prehistory and proto-history. In this post, Andy Hutcheson describes the excavations that took place at Warham Camp in July 2023 as part of The Later Prehistoric Norfolk Project.| Nara to Norwich
In June 2023, Israeli archaeologist Adam Zertal’s 1967 Mount Ebal archaeological excavations were revived by settlers and the Ministry of Defense.| Türkiye Today
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