Archaeology offers a unique way to connect with the past. It reveals stories hidden beneath the ground. In Hampshire, community excavation projects provide opportunities for people to get involved in uncovering local history. These projects are led by professionals but rely heavily on volunteers. They help to advance knowledge about the region’s heritage while encouraging public participation. The Importance of Community Excavation Projects Community excavation projects bring

Many of you will know that we have been doing an annual exploration in this village in Hampshire since 2016. We were originally invited...

One of the things that I have been impressed by with our group is the way we have kept up with new technology and used it to help us with...

It has been a very frustrating year for the Committee and members of Liss Archaeology. Despite this we were able to continue a limited...

David is busy doing his grandfatherly duties so I have been let loose on the blog. This is a very quick round up what happened during...

Well, it has been a few days since the last blog post and the digging is getting very interesting. However, what has been going on?...

Today I am just posting two video clips of activity on site. The first is a time-lapse video of work in Trench A: The second video clip...

The official first dig day of STR819 today and it was with a sigh of relief that I drove up the Farm's driveway and saw that all of our...

The last three days have been hectic for some of us, getting everything ready for this year's big dig at Stroud - our fourth year here -...

I have long been curious about some features on Peter Page's original low-resolution geophys plot (resistivity) just to the north of...

We often find pieces of Romano-British window glass at our Colemore dig site - always fragments and never large pieces. Indeed I...

It is the evening of Bank Holiday Monday and we are now a week and a half into the spring dig (CM519) at Colemore. What has been...

This morning I arrived on site to discover all the sheep had gone - Philip and Emma, the tenant farmers, had moved them yesterday,...

There is only one word to describe the first day of this Spring Dig at Colemore: Blustery! I arrived on site at 0830 to meet Tom, a new...

There was quite a crowd of us at our equipment store in West Liss at 0830 this morning. Thankfully Rob had managed to borrow a large van...

That will teach me to read the joining instructions for this dig which we are calling CM519 (i.e. Colemore May 2019). I got up very...

I apologise for not updating this blog more frequently during the Colemore autumn dig but it has been an unusually busy time for me on...

What a difference in the weather! After all the rain and wind over the weekend I arrived at Colemore at 08.20 on a distinctly chilly but...

Set-up Day Friday 21st was our setup day, so a small group of us started off at our store at West Liss at 9.00am ready to load the...

This afternoon a hardy group of half a dozen of us turned up at Colemore at lunchtime to survey and set up the grid for the start of...