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TVAS East Midlands: Excavations at Dunton Lane, Biggleswade
TVAS East Midlands: Excavations at Dunton Lane, Biggleswade TVAS East Midlands have recently finished their excavation at Dunton Lane, Biggleswade. Here is a summary of their findings with a full report to follow soon. Above: plan of the excavation area The site is situated within a rich archaeological landscape; with a wide range of sites…
Open Day and Ongoing Excavations at Butts Piece, Stanton Harcourt
Open Day and Ongoing Excavations at Butts Piece, Stanton Harcourt On 5th September 2021, TVAS held an open day at Butts Piece, Stanton Harcourt. The open day allowed the local residents of Stanton Harcourt to see the rich archaeology of the village and it proved a great success with a continuous flow of visitors that…
TVAS Reading: Excavations at Tanyard Farm, Lenham, Kent
TVAS Reading: Excavations at Tanyard Farm, Lenham, Kent After 8 months the excavations at Tanyard Farm, Old Ashford Road, Lenham have finished. The site produced evidence of human occupation from the Mesolithic through to the Anglo-Saxon period. Here is a brief summary of the finds.. Above: Map showing the site and surrounding area. The…
CNN article about Viking skeletons
CNN article about Viking skeletons In 2008 TVAS excavbated a site at St. Giles in Oxford (see previous information release here). The site itself revealed evidence of a Late Saxon Period massacre. Thirty-five men and boys were uncovered and been linked to the St. Brice’s day massacre of 1002 AD. Since the analysis was concluded there…
Nature article update: Reconstruction of a Viking
Nature article update: Reconstruction of a Viking In October 2020 an article was published in nature (nature article) that showed a link between one of the skeletons excavated during our archaeological investigations at St. Giles Oxford. (see previous information release here) The skeleton that was uncovered, now with oxfordshire museum service, was part of a larger group which…
TVAS Reading Site Update: A Roman settlement at Tubney, Oxfordshire.
TVAS Reading Site Update: A Roman settlement at Tubney, Oxfordshire. Excavations at Tubney have been ongoing for several years. Previous phases of excavation revealed very little archaeology. That all changed with the latest phase. The features that were uncovered at the crest of a slope on the site show a Roman ladder settlement. Above: Plan…
Site Update: Interesting finds from Woodsford, Dorset
Site Update: Interesting finds from Woodsford, Dorset Excavations at the quarry have been undertaken over many years by TVAS, recording a wide range of features and finds from the Bronze Age to Roman. The latest phase of excavations is no exception. They have revealed further Iron Age and Roman systems of ditches and enclosure as…
TVAS Reading Site Update: Greenham, Newbury
TVAS Reading Site Update: Greenham, Newbury Since October 2020 excavations have been taking place at a site in Greenham. Initially only a moderate amount of archaeological features was expected but, upon stripping and cleaning the site revealed a wealth of features. Several large enclosure ditches, some as deep as 1.7m were uncovered across the…
Publication of an article in Nature
Publication of an article in Nature Back in 2008 TVAS excavated a Late Saxon Period massacre grave at St Giles in Oxford (see previous information release here). The 35 men and boys (children) were thought to be ‘sprouting like cockle amongst the wheat’ (Blair 1994) and a pogrom was carried out on orders of King Aethelred…
TVAS Reading: Site Update-Central M40, Phase 4, Land at Overthorpe Road, Banbury, Northamptonshire.
TVAS Reading: Site Update-Central M40, Phase 4, Land at Overthorpe Road, Banbury, Northamptonshire. TVAS has been excavating a large site near Banbury for the last few months and have now completed the fieldwork. An initial geophysical survey was undertaken at the site as well as an evaluation. These previous works revealed a site with an…
TVAS Reading: Site Update-Salisbury Road, Hungerford, West Berkshire
TVAS Reading: Site Update-Salisbury Road, Hungerford, West Berkshire TVAS has recently excavated a site in Hungerford that initially promised very little but revealed an extensive catalogue of archaeological material. An initial geophysical survey was carried out on the land revealing a single possible linear. The site was then evaluated with trenching that confirmed the ditch…
Site Update: Redhill Farm, Gloucestershire.
Site Update: Redhill Farm, Gloucestershire. Our North Midlands office have been excavating a site in Gloucestershire. The site was identified by aerial photography and previous work had been carried out on a series of crop-marks in the area.The area of interest for TVAS was a small 50mx50m area containing a previously unexcavated crop-mark. The…
Warrior Burial on display at the Novium, Chichester
Warrior Burial on display at the Novium, Chichester During excavations at North Bersted a large grave was uncovered. As it was excavated it became apparent that the grave was unusual. Well preserved grave goods were unearthed. Amongst these the weapons and armour were the most impressive. The helmet had openwork Bronze pieces that had been…
TVAS North Midlands: Site Update: Former Vulcan Pottery Works, Stoke-on-Trent.
TVAS North Midlands: Site Update: Former Vulcan Pottery Works, Stoke-on-Trent. Our North Midlands office has been hard at work excavating some interesting sites. The Vulacan works site is one of those. The site is a former pottery kiln site. The kilns were owned and operated by Swinnertons Vulcan, Fairfields and Britannia. In total eight kilns…
TVAS Reading: Excavations at Caversham Quarry, Sonning Eye, Oxfordshire
TVAS Reading: Excavations at Caversham Quarry, Sonning Eye, Oxfordshire During archaeological work, carried out before the area is quarried, a significant Roman landscape was uncovered. This excavation has revealed multiple graves, a building, and two wells. The first of these is well [345] with a simple wooden stake and stonework construction. The second of the…
TVAS North Midlands: Site Update- Windmill cottage, Chellaston, Derbyshire
TVAS North Midlands: Site Update- Windmill cottage, Chellaston, Derbyshire TVAS North Midlands has been excavating the remains of an 18th century windmill in Chellaston. While the initial investigation was an evaluation the walls of the windmill were uncovered and the excavations extended. The excavations revealed at least 1m of the walls remaining and also showed…
TVAS South West: Excavations at Cam in Gloucestershire
TVAS South West: Excavations at Cam in Gloucestershire During recent excavations at Cam a high status Roman villa was uncovered. The villa has the remains of a hypocaust system and wall plaster from a bathhouse.
TVAS East Midlands: Excavations at Witchford, Cambridgshire
TVAS East Midlands: Excavations at Witchford, Cambridgshire The excavation has revealed a settlement of Middle to Late Iron Age date with sporadic Roman activity afterwards. The settlement remains are indicated by numerous ditches and gullies which represent various property(?) boundaries, animal pens and enclosures. The most notable are curvilinear or ring gullies which demark individual…