#FindsFriday! This Roman ring came from a site in Northamptonshire. Although absent in our example, these kinds of rings were often set with a gemstone. The stones were carved with images depicting a large range of topics, from portraits to gods to natural symbols, and were popular and valuable.

After a rainy weekend, #TeamCFA is back on site - and very excited to see what treasures we'll dig up at the end of this rainbow! If you were out on site with us, what would your dream archaeological discovery be?

We're proud to share that one of our own #TeamCFA members, Josh T., has been elected as a committee member of the CIfA Finds Group! In this role, Josh will help support the group officers in shaping and reviewing standards and guidance relating to artefactual finds work in commercial archaeology.

We have a ‘fasten-ating’ one for you… I hope we’re not ‘clasping’ at straws for #FindsFriday! These copper alloy brooches show how the settlement enclosures we excavated in Northampton are Iron Age - Romano-British in date and give us an exciting insight into the lives of the people who lived there!

CFA's November staff photo competition wrapped up last week, and we're very proud to announce the winner as Graeme with this stunning black and white shot of Dunfermline Abbey! Congrats, Graeme! 🙌📸 #PhotographyCompetition

#TeamCFA is busily working across the UK, making the best of the daylight while we have it! We're still in the early stages of this Derbyshire excavation, but the surrounding area has evidence of human activity from the Mesolithic to the post-medieval period and we're excited to see what we find!

In 2014 CFA excavated a farmstead near Maryport Roman Fort which showed signs of influence from the fort through an unusual pottery collection and evidence of intensified agricultural practices. https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue61/7/full-text.html

Four Middle Bronze Age roundhouses were excavated in 2004 at Drumyocher, Aberdeenshire. The roundhouses lay in a row, forming an unenclosed settlement, and featured interesting architectural elements such as paved entrances and long porch structures.

In 2003, CFA’s archaeologists explored the social history of 19th-century farm workers and their families at two terraced cottages, known as Jack’s Houses in Midlothian. Read more about this site, and the cottages' occupants, at https://journals.socantscot.org/index.php/sair/article/view/2064

This #25in25, we’re revisiting East Renfrewshire in 2002, where we excavated a palisaded enclosure which was dated to the early medieval period. This is exciting because ‘palisaded enclosures’ have been around since the Late Bronze Age, but ours proves that they continued into the historic period.

Today is World Menopause Day, which aims to break taboos and improve health and wellbeing by raising awareness about the symptoms of menopause and the support options available. https://themenopausecharity.org/information-and-support/ask-the-experts-trusted-answers-to-your-menopause-questions/

To kick off our site retrospective celebrating our 25th anniversary, we’re going all the way to the year 2000, when the newly established CFA Archaeology Ltd undertook an excavation at Ballypriorbeg, Northern Ireland and discovered two Bronze Age roundhouses, one of which was complete! #CFA25

CFA Archaeology is proud and excited to announce that we are turning 25 on 1st November 2025! As we celebrate our 25th anniversary over the next few weeks, we’re going to take the opportunity to look back on the history of the company and some of our favourite projects. Watch this space for more!

We are #hiring! #TeamCFA has a busy autumn ahead, with excavations scheduled across the UK. From prehistoric settlements to a medieval city centre, we have a wide variety of sites which would interest any archaeologist! To find out more, visit our website: https://www.cfa-archaeology.co.uk/careers

The winner of the September #CFAPhotoCompetition was Frances, with this fab photo. Our theme was "An Ode to Spade (and other things)", and we think she nailed it! We love the beautiful piece of worked flint she found, too. #PhotoCompetition #Archaeology #BritishArchaeology

Choose your fighter! Are you #TeamSpade? or #TeamTrowel? One of our archaeologists: "I love my trowel, of course I do. It's a staple of any archaeologist's toolkit. But there's something just so satisfying about cutting a perfect clean edge with the spade..." Tell us your opinions in the comments!

#FindsFriday! These wooden stakes formed part of a retaining wall used to shore up the side of a goit, or a channel that diverts water used to power a mill, alongside wattlework or planking. The goit was associated with Cooper’s Mill (dated to 1628), a fulling mill in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

#TeamCFA's Jamie is giving a talk on pottery production at Snettisham, Norfolk, as part of the '50 Years of Discovery' conference on 1st & 2nd Nov. Get your tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/50-years-of-discovery-tickets-1465333324419?aff=oddtdtcreator

#TeamCFA has been busy in Gloucestershire, digging and recording a large open-area excavation. There is known prehistoric, Roman, and medieval activity in the wider area and we're looking forward to seeing what kind of remains we've uncovered!

We're ringing in the new year with a fantastic #RingDitch! All of our offices are fully open and #TeamCFA is back out in the field, beginning a new year of excavation and discovery. We can't wait to see what we'll find in 2025! #HappyNewYear #NewYearNewMe #BritishArchaeology