Archaeological Dig 2017 Ogbourne St Andrew History Group Cranfield University Forensic Institute (Shrivenham) are returning this year to try to extend our knowledge of the extent, nature and above all date of the buried complex in the field to the west of the church. This year the area of interest will be the […]
Read MoreSunday saw a group of us meet with Rectory Wood with Neil Stevens and some of his colleagues, to do a metal detecting survey of the wood, with the aim of finding what traces of the 101st Airborne occupation of the area remain. We only have time to survey about half the area, and will […]
Read MoreThe announcement from the British Museum on Monday afternoon of the latest finds to be reported through the Portable Antiquities Scheme means that many of our members can now talk about everything we saw one morning back in 2015. Some 46 members of ACHG travelled to the British Museum at the end on […]
Read MoreWiltshire Museums are running tours of the Marden Henge excavations that are in progress, please see their web page. This will be running from 7 to 24th July, but you do need to book. Wiltshire Council Archaeology Service/Swindon Museum are running a tour of the Roman complex at Groundwell Ridge, on Sunday 17 July
Read MoreWessex Archaeology blog about and Anglo-Saxon cemetry at Collingbourne Ducis Not local, but we can’t not mention the new Roman writing tablets: BBC, MOLA
Read MoreHas a wonderful day on Thursday digging with Ogbourne St Andrew History Group, who with the help of a team from Cranfield University led by Karl Harrison are investigating a medieval site. They welcome volunteers even if they have never dug before. We were very lucky with the weather , and the site is […]
Read MoreGazette & Herald article about soldiers visiting a dig at Tidworth, and Wessex Archaeology coverage of the same.
Read MoreOgbourne St Andrew History Group are running a dig again this year, see here for details
Read MoreSee here for news of a Anglo-Saxon cemetery and other prehistoric finds at Bulford. And further coverage at Heritage Daily. Stonehenge may be have been a cemetry, see the Daily Mail
Read MoreSee the BBC new item here for new of a Roman villa found under a garden in Wiltshire. There is more detail here.
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