Britain’s Most Spectacular Henge?
Last week saw the latest episode of BBC 4’s Digging for Britain. If you missed it, then you missed out on seeing what could prove to be...
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Ian Parker-Heath
- Oct 6, 2017
New: Stonehenge Monuments Workshop
As you’ll know, Stonehenge didn’t exist in splendid isolation but was part of an extraordinary complex of monuments ranging in size from...
Ian Parker-Heath
- Apr 6, 2017
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...
Ian Parker-Heath
- Feb 6, 2017
The Jericho Skull: Creating An Ancestor
Excavating Jericho The story is, of course, much longer than just putting an exhibition together. There are a number of strands that come...
Nancy Detchon
- Jan 27, 2016
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
- Dec 10, 2015
A Stonehenge round-up!
As ever, there’s always something happening with Britain’s number one archaeological site, so we thought we’d take the opportunity to...
Nancy Detchon
- Dec 1, 2015
Neolithic Britain – Part 1
Introduction As with our earlier posts on the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic, we are going to break down the Neolithic in Britain to more...
Nancy Detchon
- Oct 21, 2015
Didn’t we mention archaeology on Anglesey?
Back in June we visited Anglesey with our children to see some of the archaeology of the island. Our weekend was packed full of...
Nancy Detchon
- Sep 7, 2015
More startling Neolithic discoveries!
As if this summer hadn’t given us enough to think about with the excavations we reported on at Marden, Avebury and Dorstone Hill in our...
Nancy Detchon
- Aug 24, 2015
Horizon’s First Britons
Last week the BBC aired the latest documentary in the Horizon franchise – First Britons. Since then there has been a lot of to-ing and...
Nancy Detchon
- Aug 4, 2015
KS2 British prehistory – summer of action pt 4
The busy summer of activity continues, and while some projects such as those at Dorstone, Marden and the Ardnamurchan Transitions Project...
Nancy Detchon
- Jul 28, 2015
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
- Jul 27, 2015
KS2 British Prehistory – Dorstone Hill weeks 3 and 4
As promised Ian visited a number of excavations last week including Dorstone Hill – here’s his report. Hi everyone! Nice to be back after...
Nancy Detchon
- Jul 20, 2015
KS2 British Prehistory – a summer of action pt2!
The summer of fantastic excavations on some of the most interesting sites from British Prehistory continues and now you can see some of...
Nancy Detchon
- Jul 16, 2015
KS2 British prehistory – Dorstone Hill week 2
Things are going nicely on top of Dorstone Hill. The second week of the excavation has revealed more of the structure and is looking...
Nancy Detchon
- Jul 8, 2015
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...
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 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
- May 21, 2015
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...
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