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Explore a Career in Archaeology: Work Experience with Cotswold Archaeology for 2025

Are you aged between 14 to 18, have an interest in archaeology and fancied finding out more about what an archaeologist does?...

21/10/2024

Oxford Cotswold Archaeology: Joint venture launches new website

Our joint venture, formed to ensure that major contracts are delivered to the highest standard, is now the largest archaeological services provider...

09/09/2024

No Man Left Behind: Recovering and commemorating the crew of ‘Little Boy Blue’

During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) played a critical role in the Allied effort, conducting strategic bombing...

29/07/2024

Brandiers Farm, Roman tile kiln excavations: Week 4 highlights 

Week 4 of excavating a Roman tile kiln at Brandiers Farm was off to a rocky start after torrential rain and winds...

14/08/2023

Kelmscott Community Archaeology: School Outreach 2023

During the second year of our three-year Community Archaeology Research Programme (CARP), which we are undertaking on behalf of the Society of Antiquities at...

09/08/2023

Brandiers Farm, Roman tile kiln excavations: Week 3 highlights

Week 3 at Brandiers Farm has had many big breakthroughs! From finding wooden planks in the ‘Pit of Doom’, finding a culvert...

07/08/2023

Brandiers Farm, Roman tile kiln excavations: Week 2 highlights

Week 2 at our Minety excavations have drawn to a close, and so many spectacular discoveries were made last week!

31/07/2023

Brandiers Farm: Roman kiln excavations begin again!

We lost ground at Minety last week… but for us that’s a good thing! The 2023 season of the Minety Roman kiln...

24/07/2023

Kelmscott Community Archaeology: Searching for an ancient settlement

The second season of the Kelmscott Community Archaeology Research Programme (CARP) continued with an archaeological trial trench evaluation of two fields in...

19/07/2023

Kelmscott Manor Community Archaeology: Archaeological survey

The second season of Kelmscott Manor’s Community Archaeology Research Programme (CARP) has begun! Following on from last year’s test-pit excavations with volunteers...

27/06/2023

Cotswold Archaeology and Work Experience

Cotswold Archaeology has been welcoming work-experience students for well over 20 years, so following a couple of years of enforced COVID absence,...

17/11/2022

A Roman Tile Kiln at Brandiers Farm, Minety, Wiltshire

In July 2022, CA undertook a community research excavation at Brandiers Farm, Minety, Wiltshire. The Wiltshire Historic Environment Record (WHER) had identified...

18/10/2022