Conference
Archaeology in Wiltshire 2026
Discover more about the archaeology in Wiltshire
This conference gathers archaeologists working in Wiltshire to present their latest work. Cotswold Archaeology will be attending with Sam Wilson giving a talk on the excavations at Showell Nurseries, Chippenham.
Cotswold Archaeology’s excavations at Showell Nurseries in 2025 revealed small elements of a long-lived ritual landscape, with Neolithic pits containing Grooved Ware pottery followed by the construction of a concentric-ditched Early Bronze Age barrow and associated burials. The barrow was re-established at least once, along with ongoing cremation burial activity and was accompanied by the construction of multiple smaller ring ditches of secondary barrows.
Programme
10:05 am
County Overview
Melanie Pomeroy-Kellinger (Wiltshire Council)
10:30 am
Fieldwork at Avebury and environs
Josh Pollard and Ben Chan (University of Southampton)
11:15 am
Provision, Organisation, Preparation, and Anticipation – Evidence of military training at Larkhill and Bulford 1914-1945
Matt Leivers (Wessex Archaeology)
11:40 am
Portable Antiquities Scheme finds from Wiltshire
Sophie Hawke and the Portable Antiquities Scheme team (Salisbury Museum)
12:05 pm
Excavations at Seend 2025
Phil Andrews and Mike McQueen (Wiltshire Archaeology Field Group)
2:00 pm
Earliest Movement of Sarsen Into the Stonehenge Landscape: New Insights of the Cuckoo Stone and Tor Stone
Dr Phil Harding (Wessex Archaeology)
2:30 pm
Glimpses of a sacred landscape: recent excavations at Showell Nurseries, Chippenham
Sam Wilson (Cotswold Archaeology)
3:20 pm
Excavations at Springfield Avebury
Olivia Britter (University of Southampton)
3:50 pm
Operation Nightingale at Tedworth Mausoleum
Richard Osgood (MOD/DIO)
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