KS2 British Prehistory – Dorstone Hill excavations
Hello again! Now, as I blogged briefly the other day, a team from the University of Manchester led by our friend Prof Julian Thomas, has...
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Nancy Detchon
- Jul 6, 2015
KS2 British prehistory – a summer of action!
If you are a Key Stage 2 history teacher/co-ordinator, this summer sees some really important excavations on famous and less famous...
Nancy Detchon
- Jun 29, 2015
Archaeology in Anglesey – There’s just so much! (Pt2)
Ok, as promised, here is some more of the archaeology we got to see in Anglesey on our weekend away! As last week we focused on the...
Nancy Detchon
- Jun 22, 2015
Archaeology in Anglesey – there’s so much! (Pt 1)
Well, it was good to get home after a weekend away in Anglesey and North Wales. We were so busy and saw so much I’m going to have to do...
Nancy Detchon
- Jun 19, 2015
Iron Age Orkney – follow The Cairns Project now!
Thank goodness for the internet. Can you imagine the trouble we’d have catching up with excavations from all corners of the country...
Nancy Detchon
- Jun 17, 2015
Places we visit – A weekend at Bryn Celli Ddu and more!
As we hit summertime, well in theory anyway, archaeologists up and down the country can be found out doing what most people think they do...
Nancy Detchon
- Jun 15, 2015
Tools and evolution – worth revisiting.
Back in January BBC Radio 4’s History of Ideas broadcast a piece by Dr Matt Pope of University College London in which he explored the...
Nancy Detchon
- Jun 5, 2015
Catching up with Castleton: this year’s excavation.
Colin Merrony (with his back to us!) of the Archaeology Dept, University of Sheffield talking to Dave Barratt, Derbyshire County...
Nancy Detchon
- May 12, 2015
What’s in your school grounds?
Hey, we couldn’t resist this one – a school in Reading has come up trumps – a hoard of Roman coins has been discovered in its grounds!...
Nancy Detchon
- May 11, 2015
Stones of Power? Megaliths and Politics.
War Memorial at Saltburn, N Yorks Hot off the press is the latest blog from  one our favourite archaeologists – The Urban Prehistorian...
Nancy Detchon
- May 6, 2015
KS2 Roman archaeology workshop in New Brighton!
As it is all about the Romans, we’re going have to talk about pottery. But, not only that, the children are also going to be making their...
Nancy Detchon
- May 5, 2015
KS2 Teachers – Roman Britain on BBC 4 tonight!
This Roman fort at Hardknott Pass in Cumbria dates to the 2nd century CE. As part of our efforts to keep you abreast of things...
Nancy Detchon
- Apr 25, 2015
ANZAC day : A WWI war memorial to Gallipoli campaign
War memorial commemorating the Gallipoli campaign in 1915 Today is ANZAC Day and it is perhaps more poignant than ever with it being the...
Nancy Detchon
- Apr 24, 2015
The edge of the Roman Empire is rescued!
If someone asked you if you knew of Alauna, chances are you’d say no. If someone asked you if you’d heard of Maryport, a few of you might...
Nancy Detchon
- Apr 23, 2015
The things you find when you upgrade a railway: prehistoric butter churn?
There has been a lot of talk in the media over the years about developments such as Crossrail, HS1 and HS2, especially about the cost of...
Nancy Detchon
- Mar 30, 2015
Its not all Bronze in the Bronze Age!
One of the metaphorical things about archaeology is that archaeologists like to put real things into categories so they can make sense of...
Nancy Detchon
- Mar 27, 2015
Children of WW2 at Kelham Island Museum, Sheffield
Just a little video to highlight some of the work I do with Kelham Island Museum in Sheffield. I appear about 8 seconds in, wearing ...
Nancy Detchon
- Mar 26, 2015
KS2 teachers, what can you find out about . . . the Palaeolithic?
You might think that finding information on the archaeology of the Palaeolithic of the area you live and work in might be difficult....
Nancy Detchon
- Mar 11, 2015
Beer: its been good for you since they brewed it in Ancient Sumer.
KS2 pupils and teachers are just so lucky – they get to study heaps of interesting things in the History curriculum. One of these can be...
Nancy Detchon
- Mar 10, 2015
A new WWI heritage trail in Norfolk?
Norfolk, quiet rural backwater right? Nothing much ever happens there . . . if only that were true! After last week’s story of the...
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