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
Cotswold Archaeology: As work began on the first phase of excavations on the western edge of Fordingbridge, Hampshire, just outside the New Forest National Park, exciting finds started to appear. Investigation revealed an extensive Iron Age and Roman rural settlement which was previously unknown. However, it is one of the very first discoveries that provided much excitement… Read More » The post Making an impression at Fordingbridge appeared first on Cotswold Archaeology.| Cotswold Archaeology
Last year Cotswold Archaeology’s Andover team excavated a site on the western edge of Fordingbridge, Hampshire, just outside the New Forest National Park. The excavations were ahead of a residential development by CALA Homes. Situated on a river terrace overlooking the Allen Brook and other nearby tributaries, the open area excavation of 0.84ha revealed over… Read More »| Cotswold Archaeology
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
Cotswold Archaeology: In 2022 and 2023, Cotswold Archaeology’s Milton Keynes field team conducted archaeological excavations at a site to the west of Northampton. A particularly interesting artefact found in the fill of a ditch was this fired clay spindle whorl. Spindles are textile tools consisting of a straight rod which is often weighted at either the bottom,… Read More » The post You spin me right round baby, right round: Iron Age spindle whorl from Land West of Northampton appeared ...| Cotswold Archaeology