If you have an interest in environmental archaeology and would like to join our team for three weeks this summer we would love to hear from you bamburghresearchproject.wordpress.com/2026/05/07/d...

Dr Sam Lucy is doing a public lecture on the recent publication of the cemetery site at the Bowl Hole Bamburgh do check out the details on our blog bamburghresearchproject.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/i...

Very happy to announce that the publication of our cemetery excavation is available for order. Do take a look at the link below bamburghresearchproject.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/e...

Booking for our dig in 2026 is now live! Check it out through our blog bamburghresearchproject.wordpress.com/2025/11/29/w...

Today was our final post-ex day, where we explored #osteoarchaeology. We took a deep dive into the excavation of the early med. Bowl Hole cemetery, which sits just outside the castle. This pm we were then joined by osteo, Giselle Kiraly, who taught us the basics of osteoarch. A fascinating day!

Day 4 of our post-excavation week and we have been out to visit our friends at Ad Gefrin and @davidpetts1.bsky.social on #Lindisfarne. Lots of lovely early medieval goodness. #northumberland #archaeology 1/2 🏺

Day 3 of our post-ex week here at #Bamburgh Castle and we have gone all potty! We spent the day making and firing various types of #pottery, while discussing all things ceramic🏺🔥

It's Day 2 of our post-ex week and we have spent the morning recording and illustrating some of our (many) small finds 🏺 This afternoon we were joined by Zooarch, Clare Rainsford, to explore how animal bones are understood and used in archaeological interpretation. 🦌🐈🐄🐇

We're back for another post-ex week at #Bamburgh Castle 🎉🎉🎉 We've started by exploring our many small finds and bulk find assemblage. The sun is out, the coffee is flowing and chat is good 🤩🏺

Come and join us next week for our post excavation week. Places are available even if you can only make one or two two days. bamburghresearchproject.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/p...

🚨Due to a last minute cancellation we have space left for our post-ex week (starts Monday)🚨 We focus on: 👉artefact ID & illustration 👉Zooarchaeology 👉Medieval textiles and ceramics 👉Osteoarchaeology 👉Field trip to Lindisfarne 🏺🧵1/2

📢 This September we'll be back at #Bamburgh Castle for our post-excavation week. We focus on: 👉artefact ID & illustration 👉Osteoarchaeology 👉Zooarch & paleoenvironmental 👉Medieval textiles & ceramics Find out more👉 bamburghresearchproject.co.uk/index.php/po...

Through can still join us for our post excavation week in September bamburghresearchproject.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/p...

Elizabeth shows Meg how we complete context sheets for different areas and features within the trench with our earlier #medieval foundations. #archaeologicalexcavation

Laurie's cleaning out the settling tank from the flotation system to remove all the silt and get ready to pack up for the offseason. The silt is so smooooooooth! #environmentalarchaeology #SpaDay

A metal pin from the #midden! bamburghresearchproject.wordpress.com/2025/07/18/p...

Some #Roman #glass from our #IronAge #roundhouse in old trench 3! It came out of an #environmentalarchaeology sample processed today.

Possible linear feature running under the likely #Victorian folly in front of the #medieval walls! How does this connect with our ditch and the foundations behind the folly?

We 💚 the Young Archaeologists' Club! Read about our contest winners' day at the Castle here: bamburghresearchproject.wordpress.com?p=9965

Emily and Anastasia are planning the new spread of large stones near the blocked #medieval gateway. Emily has a hand tape and plumb-bob to ensure accurate off-set while Anastasia "graphs" the point she calls out on the gridded permatrace (waterproof paper for site drawings).

Sophie is using the EDM (electronic distance measure) to locate some of our planning points near the blocked #medieval passageway at St. Oswald's Gate. #survey

Last week's round-up! bamburghresearchproject.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/w...

We are between the wall stump and 13th-century #medieval wall where we discovered foundations in previous seasons. Today we were able to clear the rubble under the massive flagstones that were lifted last season, creating that level area to the right of the remaining stones.

Isabella is sieving soil from the area near the #Victorian postern gate and the #medieval wall foundations trench!

Aimee is planning the #medieval cobbles and rubble between the 13th-century wall and the wall stump so we can lift them!

Our new crop of students on Graeme's trench tour!

More #medieval worked #bone! bamburghresearchproject.wordpress.com/2025/07/11/f...

A red deer mandible! It came out of our #midden. This is one of the largest species of #deer, and one of two native to Britain, the other being the roe deer which is tinier. #zooarchaeology

The sun is helping our #midden finds dry!

Kathy has been working in one quadrant of the #midden, and she is finding trays-worth of animal bone and shell! Still nothing dateable yet! #archaeologicalexcavation

A quick peek into the #medieval #well! We've pumped out most of the water and exposed the corners where there's still sediment. We want to get a closer look at the timbers to see if they extend further down.

A view of the trench this morning. Work goes on with leveling our sondage across the possible ditch, excavating our midden, and some recording via plan.

A glorious day to wash #finds outside the windmill!

Does anyone's nan still have this style in the cupboard? 😂 It's fairly recent for our purposes but we love when we can put bits back together. These five pieces show burning along th rim, but the lovely gold paint is still glimmering in the sun. #pottery #antique

Your favourite #archaeologists fill you in on their offseason and future plans! bamburghresearchproject.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/t...

ANOTHER BIT OF #MEDIEVAL WORKED BONE! This seems to be a fragment of a comb from the end of Middle or Late Saxon period, up to about 10th century. The hole is where another piece would be riveted to this, and the base of the teeth is visible across the top.

Mark is bring down the edge of our old exposed #medieval foundations between the wall stump and big wall. We hope to figure out how it relates to the ivy coverage wall in the background that doesn't quite align with it.

Jack is excavating a sondage (mini-trench) next to the wall stump to give us a better idea of whether it's partially #medieval and #Victorian, or simply mostly Victorian. We have gotten some green glazed pottery sherds! #13thcentury

Washing finds from one quadrant of the midden! Lots of whelks! 🐚 #finds

We've got a probable #midden (historical rubbish pile) in the south of the new trench, so we have decided to break it into quarters to investigate. In the second picture, you can see we have created four quadrants and begun to excavate.

Setting up a grid system in the new trench! bamburghresearchproject.wordpress.com/2025/07/04/p...

#Medieval bone plaque, fresh from the trench! bamburghresearchproject.wordpress.com/2025/07/02/f...

Marina's got a leg up in her #zooarchaeology training! This is a cow tibia from the Iron Age roundhouse deposits from old Trench 3. Cattle during that time period are smaller than those of the medieval! #ironage

Coin lovers: we've got a lovely 1917 (George V) halfpenny! #coins #numismatics #wwi #ww1

#Medieval carved bone plate with iron rivet and from the new area! Possibly 9th or 10th century knife handle.

Trench Officer Nat demonstrates how the students will trowel to clean our new trench area. Today's goal is to clean the topsoil off to get to the likely #Victorian floor surface associated with the postern gate!

If you are just joining us here on Bluesky, welcome and thanks for following! We just started the #archaeology dig season up in beautiful #Northumberland at Bamburgh Castle.

Isabella and Emily clearing the broken-off edge of later #medieval wall to the north of the postern gate! #excavation #archaeology

Trench Supervisor Elizabeth has some students sheltered from the thunderbugs/thrips in the windmill to learn about context recording. #archaeology

We are back on site for 2025