Gdansk Shipyard.

Archaeologists on holiday...watching our Polish colleagues at work.

Fen Diagram A cartoon for the mathematically-minded lovers of flatlands, a particular Venn diagram in itself. www.worldofmoose.com/products/fen...

The secret German weather station on the Arctic island of Svalbard. Part of the 'Weather War'. The team, led by Lieutenant Wilhelm Dege, were the last German troops to surrender in WW2, finally doing so FOUR MONTHS after Germany had officially surrendered. It was not for want of trying. /1

What's the 'best' thing you've ever found is always a tricky one but my thoughts always go back to the butchered whale bone (that's a bit of vertebrae I'm holding) from an early medieval pit at Sedgford. Also, the first feature I ever dug! @sedgefordarch.bsky.social

The site where I first picked up a trowel and I spent many happy summer seasons digging there. I wonder if many community digs can produce so many people who become lifelong archaeologists (Volunteers, commercial, academic and everything either side and in between) @sedgefordarch.bsky.social

Really interesting blog post on three prehistoric crouched burials from Sedgeford, Norfolk, including one dating to the Chalcolithic (CW: human remains photos): www.sharp.org.uk/single-post/...

Just because you all need more archaeological sites and finds in your feed. Black and brown layers of agricultural activities interrupted by layers of sand near the southwestern coast of Norway. Oldest dating gave result to early Bronze Age in Norway.

Archaeological site hack #243 'The Permatrace Funnel'

On holiday in Poland visiting my partners family I was invited over for coffee and cake to the 'pirate captain' granddad's house. Well, I'm instantly invited to the cellar to taste his home brew 'spirits'

As usual, bit of a busman's holiday. Exhibition in Sopot looking at sites emerging from drained wetlands in Poland!

Pot de jour. 6th century inhumation accessory vessel from the E Midlands. A strong candidate for the nicest pot of its type that's ever sat on my desk. #ancientbluesky #archaeology

Just a got a copy of the May/June edition of British Archaeology Magazine @archaeologyuk.bsky.social It features our work in the Flag Fen Basin - the images on page 25 emphasise the stark difference between good (Must Farm logboat/fish traps) & poor preservation (Flag Fen mortised beam).

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1.1km long, around 10m wide, involving approximately 22000 piles; the Flag Fen post-alignment was constructed at the beginning of the 13th century BC and maintained, repaired, and replaced until the end of the 10th century BC - preserved by peat until?

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The May/June edition of #BritishArchaeology is out now! A great article about Flag Fen at risk and its future. International membership is also available for @archaeologyuk.bsky.social which includes the magazine as part of the subscription! #Archaeology 🏺 www.archaeologyuk.org/our-work/bec...

Flag Fen is drying out. Large sections will soon disappear forever. It's pretty much now or never if we want to understand Britain's largest and most impressive prehistoric wooden structure.

We’re excited to share that Hinterlands & Inlands: The Archaeology of West Cambridge and Roman Cambridge Revisited by Christopher Evans and Gavin Lucas is now available to download for free as an Open Access volume here doi.org/10.17863/CAM...

Excavations at Tarmac’s Broom South Quarry uncovered this nearly complete iron comb from the layers inside a Saxon sunken featured building. The coarseness of the comb’s teeth suggest that it may have been used in textile production.

Not all our small finds are small, as this complete upper rotary quern shows. Found in a pit on an excavation at Tarmac’s Broom South Quarry, this quern is made from sandstone and has two channels cut into the grinding surface for mounting handles.

Mmmm.. the familiar site of a Middle Iron Age pit. Nice!

This stunning palaeolithic handaxe was found during our excavations at Tarmac’s Broom South Quarry. It has the distinctive pointed form of a ficron handaxe with concave edges and is associated with a period during the Lower Palaeolithic around 350,000 years ago.

At Tarmac’s Broom South Quarry we discovered this broken transversally sharpened axe or adze. Mesolithic in date, the “tranchet axe” is missing the proximal (working) end. This fracture could have happened while it was being used.

This polished edge blade-knife was one of the most exciting finds discovered during investigations at Broom Quarry South. This is a rare artefact, typically associated with the Middle Neolithic, but interestingly this example was found in an Early Neolithic context in a fill of a circular pit.

During earlier work at Tarmac’s Broom South Quarry a single pit produced a fascinating collection of Early Bronze Age pottery. A total of 54 sherds of finely decorated and rusticated vessels, typically non-funerary Beaker Ware, were found in a single fill.

These Beaker pot sherds came from a pit at Tarmac’s Broom South Quarry. The feature was also able to tell us more about the landscape during the Early Bronze Age. Samples revealed over 100 charcoal fragments including oak, ash & field maple and charred cereal grains of barley.

One area of archaeology at Broom South Quarry involved a series of Middle Iron Age enclosures, including a large “D-shaped” enclosure with a roundhouse. This enclosure’s ditch had been recut six times, suggesting it was used for a long time.

We were very excited to find this fantastic base of a Middle Iron Age pot at Tarmac’s Broom South Quarry. With a La Tène-style decoration consisting of three blank circles with incised lines and an outer line, this is an unusual find.

Inside a “D-shaped” enclosure at Tarmac's Broom Quarry South we worked on this prehistoric roundhouse that had two small pits containing small quantities of Middle Iron Age pottery in its interior. The archaeology of the roundhouse suggests that it only had a single phase of occupation.

It’s always a great feeling when we can refit sherds together, like this Middle Iron Age Scored Ware pot. Found at Tarmac’s Broom South Quarry, these sherds could be refitted to create around 30% of the original vessel with its distinctive, erratic scored patterns.

At Broom South Quarry we discovered some fascinating Middle Iron Age pits, dating to 350-50BC. This pit contained lots of semi-articulated bones from cows and horses including skulls, spines and lower legs with cut marks suggesting they were waste cuts from food processing.

This Late Neolithic greenstone pestle mace head was discovered at Tarmac’s Broom South Quarry. Interestingly it was found in a Roman ditch and seems to have been “curated” by someone during the Roman period before being purposely placed in the ditch.

Little one has been down with some mystery virus this week. Just found out she's caught archaeology. Terrible affliction.

Fenbow.

These five Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged flint arrowheads were discovered in a single pit at Tarmac’s Broom South Quarry. Found with 32 sherds of decorated Beaker ware, it seems the arrowheads had been deliberately deposited in the pit together.

One of the reasons we drove to Poland for the summer holiday this year was so my partner could pick up these pre-war chairs she inherited. It's a long old drive to get a chair for a cat to sit in.

Lettings agents/property managers deserve a special place in hell...an extra hot bit.

Yet another unsustainable rise in rents - time for the government to put a stop to rip off rents and stop landlords treating tenants as cash cows. Rent controls are long overdue and are badly needed to give all renters a home they can afford.

On our 2024 site in Bedfordshire, we explored the ditch that forms the large Iron Age enclosure to understand its history and look for material to help us more accurately date its different layers. In the centre of this photo, just visible, is one of the site’s structures, “Roundhouse One”.

Roundhouse One, from our 2024 Bedfordshire project, had several small and medium pits around its entrance that we had to carefully excavate to understand the area’s stratigraphy.

Work on Roundhouse One on our 2024 project in Bedfordshire involved digging slots in the structure’s ring gully. The building was 12m in diameter with an entrance positioned to the southeast, a typical feature of Iron Age roundhouses to help sunlight enter throughout the day.

thePipeLine has asked the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists and the Institute for Occupational Medicine to clarify the roles of Nathan Baker in the period between CIfA stating he was taking up the role of CEO and yesterday's shock announcement he was standing down. Our original story is here.

For the 3rd year running, I'm doing an online 12-hour One Man Conference on buildings archaeology! This will also see the debut of two brand new talks looking at the Secrets of Ancient Floors and Walls. 10am-10pm, Sat 8 March... More info & bookings: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/one-man-co...

In 2024 we worked on a project in Bedfordshire which included a large Late Iron Age enclosure that was subdivided into smaller internal areas. We’re hoping to find out if the different sections of the enclosure might have developed gradually or were all present from the start.

Another exciting period of archaeology from West Deeping’s Cemex Quarry is the Middle Bronze Age. This period saw droveway systems, some with cow burials close by. Four cow burials were discovered in a single phase, with each buried around 5m from the droveway ditches.

Another find from the deposits in the Roman shrine feature at West Deeping’s Cemex Quarry was a Roman shoe. The shoe had a sheep or goatskin upper, an insole made from cow leather. It is likely it would have had a pair of integral laces and a large fastening loop on its back.

It isn’t just Roman archaeology at the Cemex Quarry, West Deeping. This late Neolithic Grooved Ware vessel is exiting owing to its “Woodlands” style decoration with whipped cord impressions. One phase of work produced 2,747 sherds of Grooved Ware weighing 21kg!

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Also found deposited in the top layer of the Roman shrine at Cemex Quarry, West Deeping was a stone altar. The altar may have originally been mounted in a wall, potentially being used as a shelf in a shrine or villa for the placement of vessels or offerings.