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Ian Parker-Heath

What’s In Your Parish? King Sterndale.

We’ve had occasional posts here about looking at Archaeology and history where you live. We may well be many weeks into the lockdown with...

Ian Parker-Heath

Some of Gloucestershire’s Archaeology: Part 1 Hetty Pegler’s Tump

Catherine and Hetty Pegler’s Tump This week we travelled to Gloucestershire to do a workshop in Yate. We took this opportunity to visit...

Nancy Detchon

Preparation is key!

As some of you might know, Catherine and I are working closely with a local group who are exploring the history and archaeology of a...

Nancy Detchon

Stonehenge on the TV: can we ever have enough?

Members of the 2009 Stonehenge Riverside Project photographing the joints on the top of one of the uprights. Once again the nation’s...

Nancy Detchon

Must Farm – A Bronze Age house and more!

Last week I have the opportunity of visiting Must Farm, a Bronze Age settlement site, with members of the Prehistoric Society. Right...

Nancy Detchon

KS2 British prehistory – summer of action pt3

This weekend saw me visit to 3 excavations of some importance in the story of our past. In terms of British prehistory the Neolithic is...

Nancy Detchon

Another busy week with KS2 workshops in Halifax and Buxton!

Well its been another busy week here at Enrichment with KS2 workshops in Halifax and more locally – at the school where three of my...

Nancy Detchon

Discovering Prehistoric Buxton!

The brief from Burbage Primary School was quite specific – a day that would take the children away from the school grounds, discover the...

Nancy Detchon

Arbor Low Environs Project: Test-pitting

We have now finalised the dates for the test-pitting in a field near Arbor Low. This phase of the project will run from 26th March – 7th...

Nancy Detchon

The first photos…

Here are the first of the photos of the finds from our field-walking expedition in November with Dr Hannah Cobb, Dr Ian Parker Heath and...

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