Winter Landscape Campaign (Oct ’18 – Jun ’19)

We will be conducting more landscape work via fieldwalking & geophysics on a new site this autumn , plus continuing our exploration of the potential hillfort in the town, and the local Roman road network.

We will also be undertaking further pot washing and analysis sessions.

As with everything we do, the public can get involved in this by signing up to the project – they will need to be a project member though in order to be covered by our insurance.

Contact matt@mbarchaeology.co.uk to get involved.

Summer Community Dig (15-26 July 2019)

After having the pottery from Seasons 1-3 analysed earlier this year, we have now decided to undertake a fourth and final season of excavations, planned for the summer of 2019.

Analysis of the pottery from Farthingate revealed that all the pot dates to the 1st & 2nd centuries, thus predating the later phase of the villa by some 100-150 years. This suggests, given the width of the river separating the [continue reading]…