What’s In Your Parish? Ockbrook.
Welcome to the first of our new occasional blogs “What’s in your parish?” in which we’ll take a look at what archaeology can be, or has...
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Nancy Detchon
- Mar 2, 2016
More Must Farm findings!
Back in December I visited the excavations at a site called Must Farm near Peterborough. It is a fantastically preserved Bronze Age house...
Nancy Detchon
- Feb 17, 2016
Local study, social history and archaeology in one place.
St Peter’s, Titchfield, Hampshire. Churches are just one of our ritual sites. To paraphrase that Fast Show character “Aren’t churches...
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
- Jan 14, 2016
A tale of two exhibitions. Part 1- The Celts: art & identity
Catherine and I recently had the chance to visit the British Museum to catch two of their featured exhibitions – The Celts: Art &...
Nancy Detchon
- Jan 5, 2016
Archaeology on Television: Missing that je ne sais quoi?
The arrival of 2016 has brought more archaeology programmes to our television screens with two new series airing this week. The BBC...
Nancy Detchon
- Dec 21, 2015
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
- 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 7, 2015
Manchester Archaeology Day – a postcript
I recently posted a review of the Manchester Archaeology Day conference which was held at the University of Salford. One of the things I...
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
- Nov 30, 2015
Manchester Archaeology Day (@DGM_Archaeology)
The Peel Building, University of Salford Saturday saw the 9th Manchester Archaeology Day – and this was an excellent chance to catch up...
Nancy Detchon
- Sep 15, 2015
KS2 teachers: Comings and goings on TV, museums and more!
Well, while schools are getting settled in and universities are gearing up to the new academic year, here are a few items from the world...
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 19, 2015
Things to do in the summer holidays!
Of course, it’s that time of year when parents, who may be teachers and vice versa, are looking for things to do with bored, restless 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...
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