Avon Archaeology Ltd

Come join us this Saturday as we support this year's Bristol's Brilliant Archaeology at Blaise Castle museum. The event is free, with loads of things to do and see!

16/09/23 11am to 4pm

Hard to imagine, but the walls below were built as part of an 18th -19th century hot house complex, the primary purpose of which was growing pineapples.

The section demonstrates the level of landscaping that went on, an entirely made bank.

Seems a huge effort for a very low yield crop, until you discover that pineapples were, for a time, worth nearly the value of a small house!

Lastly, some slurry, because this is archaeology 😄

Views of Evesham Abbey Park, and Anbey site from newly refurbished viewing platform

Glorious frosty morning in Oxfordshire. One trench dug, 30 to go...

First day of the first site of the year. It was an early one, arriving and setting up in the dark. Opened several trenches, no exciting discoveries yet.

Exciting opportunity for 18-20 year olds

Scheme to help young people dig at Vindolanda Roman site opens Historic England is providing £10,000 to fund 10 places on digs for budding archaeologists.

Gloucester Festival of Archaeology, many events in and around the city this weekend including what an Archaeologist does day to day. St Mary De Crypt Church, Southgate Street, Gloucester 11am-4pm 30th July.

This weekend we will have a stand/display at St Mary De Crypt in Gloucester, ready to talk all things field archaeology as part of this year's Festival of Archaeology. There are a number of events happening around the city; see amazing Lego reconstructions at the Gloucester Folk Museum, handle ancient artefacts at Gloucester Museum and find out how to date a building from tree rings at St Michaels Tower.

We will be at St Mary De Crypt from 11am till 4pm on Saturday 30th July.

Find out about events in your area online at archaeologyuk.org/festival

📣 This Saturday, join Andrew Armstrong at our Hands on History event! 🏛️

City Archaeologist, Andrew Armstrong will be with us for the day sharing the amazing findings of the site as one of Iron Age settlement, the unearthing of iron age pottery and discovery of a roundhouse. We may even have some of the archaeological material on display including a replica of our beloved Birdlip Mirror! 📜

📅 Saturday 2 July, various times between 10am - 6pm 🎟️ Free!
👉 Learn more! https://www.museumofgloucester.co.uk/events/hands-on-history

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! Here are a few decorated floor tiles found during our recent community archaeology project at Evesham, Abbey Evesham Abbey Trust

The remains of Evesham Abbey Church are located within an area that has, for several hundred years been used as gardens and for allotment gardening. Much of the site of the Abbey Church was excavated, recorded and backfilled by Edward Rudge between 1811 and 1834. Then in 1881, the Vicar of St Lawrence Church, F. W. Holland re-excavated the partial remains of the north-west pier of the Abbey Church Tower. The north-west pier was left exposed for viewing, however years of neglect led to the remains becoming engulfed with vegetation, a build-up of soil and rubbish.

The recent community archaeological project re-exposed the remains of the north-west pier and re-excavated a section of rubble wall in the location of the west end of the Abbey Church.

Very few artefacts of note were recovered during the excavation work – not overly surprising as the ground had been excavated before. However, numerous fragments of floor tile were recovered, and though most were in a fairly poor condition, a few decorated examples were found.

If you missed the tours during our Community Archaeology week, you will be excited by this little announcement....
As part of the Evesham Medieval Market Weekend (21st - 22nd May 2022) you can have a guided walk and tour of the excavation site. Tours are on Saturday and Sunday 12pm and 3pm. Meet at the Evesham Abbey Trust Gazebo (just inside the Cloister Arch!)

ROMAN SOMERSET
SATURDAY 21 May 2022
10 for 10.30 am--3pm

A day Symposium looking at recent discoveries:

Damian De Rosa from Wessex Archaeology and Richard Greatorex from Cotswold Archaeology: A Late Iron Age and Romano-British Settlement and Cemetery in Somerton
Richard Brunning: The Roman Villa
Maria Kneafsey: Roman finds
Bob McIntosh and Charlotte Bishop from Oxford Archaeology: Roman roadside settlement near Banwell
Nicola Hembrey and David Roberts from Historic England: Low Ham Roman villa; enriching the story

ST ANDREW’S CHURCH HALL, KINGSTON RD, TAUNTON
ALL WELCOME
Tickets including tea and coffee £15
Booking by 19 May 2022
Tickets can be reserved to pay on the door with [email protected] or
[email protected]
tel. 01823.272429 [voicemail]

https://www.avonarchaeology.co.uk/news/evesham-abbey-worcestershire

Evesham Abbey, Worcestershire For several years now, Avon Archaeology Ltd have been working with Evesham Abbey Trust as part of the team for their project to conserve the Abbey site and create a community garden. The site, most recently allotments, encompasses a large part of the former abbey church, the abbey cloisters and part...

Had a great week working to expose remains of Evesham Abbey, in Worcestershire. Thank you so much to the lovely team from Evesham Abbey Trust and all the volunteers; Natalie, Barrie, Mike, Alan, John, Evan, Carol, Brenda, Carmel, Louise, Paul, Josh, Callum, Judy, Roy, Kevin, Mike, Sue (apologies if I missed a anyone) you all did a sterling job! Will post some pictures when we are less exhausted.

Here is Andrew Armstrong, Gloucester City Archaeologist talking about the Roman Stones we recovered from Southgate Street a couple of years ago.

Roman Stones at deCrypt Second edit

Today was spent in the sunshine carrying out a survey of standing remains of Evesham Abbey. It was more than a little hot out there, but such a beautiful place to work.

We have been working for sometime now with Evesham Abbey Trust in their bid to restore and repair the the Grade II listed at risk walls and provide a community garden which reflects and interprets the story of the Abbey and the history of Evesham.

If you would like to find out more about the aims of Evesham Abbey Trust please follow the link www.eveshamabbey.org.uk

This is fascinating...it is sometimes difficult to think of the past, especially the distant past in vibrant colour

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Ooh this looks interesting

Join blacksmith and living historian, Thomas Timbrell to explore the world of the Iron Age metalsmith.

The Iron Age Metalsmith, Online Talk with Thomas Timbrell, Thursday 8 April, 7pm. Book tickets here

https://coriniummuseum.org/event/the-iron-age-metalsmith-online-talk-with-thomas-timbrell/

2021 marks the bicentenary of the ex*****on of John Horwood of Hanham. At only 18 years old, he was the first person to be executed from the gallows on the gates of Bristol New Gaol.

Horwood had been convicted of the murder of Eliza Balsum, his former sweetheart.

Dr Richard Smith, the surgeon who attended Eliza at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, became witness for the prosecution. He dissected Horwood’s body post-mortem in front of a public audience, and had Horwood’s skin dressed and tanned to bind his case papers. Embossed with the actual skin of John Horwood and skull and cross-bone motifs, the book is now on display at M Shed.

In our free online talk on Thursday 15 April, Dr Rose Wallis will explore the contents of the 'book of skin'. It sheds light on the operation of the law in the 1820s, and contemporary attempts to understand criminality.

We can find intimate details about life for young people in the early nineteenth-century, and an insight into Horwood the person, beyond the criminal co**se, or indeed the 'book of skin'.

Speaker: Dr Rose Wallis is a Senior Lecturer in British Social History at UWE Bristol and, and Associate Director of the Regional History Centre.

This is a UWE Regional History Centre talk in partnership with M Shed seminar series.

This free, online talk will be held over Zoom. Please book your place here: https://www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/m-shed/whats-on/reading-the-book-of-skin-life-and-death-of-john-horwood/

It is a beautiful church to visit. We enjoyed the archaeological work associated with the restoration which was completed in 2019.

Take a Trip to the Crypt of DeCrypt The Church of St Mary de Crypt and the Old Crypt Schoolroom stand in the historic heart of Gloucester. This