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Friday, 05 February 2010 |
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Check out the latest British Archaeology Magazine, which is available now, - with stories covering the project at Fromelles and the Simon Callery Landscape project http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ Fromelles also appears in the latest issue of Chemistry Today and across the excellent BBC website (here is a link to a gallery of some of the finds) showing the wide range of interest the project has raised.
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Monday, 01 February 2010 |
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The ceremony to rebury the first of the 250 Australian and British soldiers recovered from Pheasant Wood commenced at 11:00 am on 30th January at the new Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery. The first soldier was buried with full military honours in the presence of the people of Fromelles and dignitaries from Australia, the United Kingdom and France. |
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Monday, 01 February 2010 |
 David Jennings accepts the golden dhow from Simon Moore |
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Monday, 04 January 2010 |
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The Carlisle Millennium Project
teachers’ pack originated through meetings of the Carlisle
Millennium Project’s advisory panel and Carlisle City Council, the
latter providing generous funding. The teachers’ pack, it was
decided, would concentrate on Carlisle’s medieval past. It was
written by John Zant and Christine Howard-Davis (the primary authors
of the excavation volumes) and included five resources boxes, which
were full of replica artefacts, including leather shoes and pottery.
Our remit was to provide teachers with information, resources and
activities to demonstrate to their Key Stage 3 classes the
similarities and differences between life today and that of people
living in the medieval period, particularly in Carlisle, but also
using regional and national events when relevant. |
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Monday, 04 January 2010 |
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Over the past year OA South carried out a programme of investigations for Balfour Beattie as part of the
dualling of the A421 between Bedford and Junction 13 of the M1. The project is now in the early stages of post-excavation work, and promises to yield interesting results. |
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Monday, 04 January 2010 |
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Following our successful collaboration with the artist Simon Callery, OA has been involved in another fascinating public art project, Chris Tipping’s 1479 Plates, which was on display in the historic Octagon building in Central Bath last month. This project was commissioned by Bath and North-East Somerset Council as part of a programme of public art commissioned to mark and celebrate the successful completion of the Comb Down Stone Mines stabilisation project.
The stabilisation project involved the infilling of a huge expanse of disused limestone quarries underneath the village of Combe Down, south of central Bath. OA, of course, carried out an eight-year watching brief during the stabilisation works and collaborated heavily with Chris Tipping.
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Monday, 04 January 2010 |
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At OA East we usually try to run at least one community archaeology project each year. The big project in 2009 was the Wisbech Castle project and our search for the Lost Bishop’s Palace. The joint OA East and Cambridgeshire County Council project, funded by a Your Heritage HLF grant, involved research and survey on the site, followed by a volunteer community dig.
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Monday, 04 January 2010 |
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While the Romans left no trace, their
predecessors dropped no rocks, and the farmers did nothing of note,
the more recent history of Angel Meadow on the fringe of Manchester
city centre arguably helped shape the world as we know it. Today the
site is an anonymous and ordinary looking inner city wasteland, but
in its ‘heyday’ was an appalling slum that was instrumental in
forming the political opinions of a young impressionable German by
the name of Friedrich Engels. It became a frequent pawn in the battle
between social reformers and capitalists, and was home to the worst
of the city’s youth gangs at the turn of the 20th century. |
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Thursday, 22 October 2009 |
As OA East’s Robert Atkins explains, an exciting new development sees the bringing together of the results of CAMARC’s 2006 excavations at Broughton, Milton Keynes, together with those of OA South’s adjacent excavations at Brooklands, into the first across-office OA monograph. The Broughton post-excavation work is well underway, but the opportunity to combine these neighbouring and similarly-dated sites was too good to miss.
From the summer of 2006 through to spring 2007 staff at OA East carried out excavations at Broughton Manor Farm in advance of the proposed development of 48 hectares of land to the west of Milton Keynes. Two areas, 200 m apart, were excavated, covering a total area of 6.2 hectares.
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Wednesday, 21 October 2009 |
The Braunton Community Archaeology Project aimed to provide access to archaeology to school children and members of the public through providing hands on experience of archaeological survey work. The project was developed by Chris Carey in conjunction with the Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon, the Museum of Braunton, and the University of Birmingham.
The project had a series of different components including a schools-based teaching session on Holocene archaeology, archaeological survey methods and the evolution of Devon’s landscape. Landscape evolution is particularly relevant for the students as it represents not only a regional identity but also demonstrates human impact on the environment throughout the Holocene.
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