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Claverham Works and Court De Wyck: Medieval key

...We’re dor-key-ing out over this recent find… This beautiful little key was recently recovered by our Kemble field team from a Newland Homes site...
03/10/2023

Mind Your Manors: Rediscovering the medieval manor of Court De Wyck

Earlier this year our Kemble fieldwork team undertook a small excavation at the edge of Claverham village, North Somerset, for Newland Homes....
18/09/2023

Mesolithic Cave Burial System Identified from Human Remains

The exciting results of early Mesolithic radiocarbon dates on human bones from the cave at Cannington Quarry are now published in the...
21/06/2021

Prehistoric and Roman activity to the north of Bancombe Road, Somerton, Somerset

During spring and summer 2020, Cotswold Archaeology undertook an excavation on behalf of Bloor Homes in Somerton, Somerset. The excavation took place...
22/09/2020

Quern stone from Hinkley

In 2012/2014 Cotswold Archaeology excavated a late prehistoric and Romano-British settlement site at Hinkley Point, Somerset. One of the many artefacts discovered...
15/05/2019

Cannington Park Quarry Cave, Somerset – Re-examination of the human and animal remains

The site Cannington Park Quarry Cave (also known as Boulder Cave or South Quarry Cave) was located in c. 1962 (some notes...
08/03/2019
A female field archaeologist draws her section, with a rainbow and fieldworking behind

A Landscape of Power. History Runs Deep in the Countryside of West Somerset

In the last few decades those areas that have experienced the most new building have also seen the most archaeological exploration. Sometimes,...
27/02/2019

Book Launch Event in Cannington, Somerset

Cotswold Archaeology has just published the first volume in a planned series about the archaeology of the Hinkley Point C construction project,...
26/02/2019
Roman ‘briquetage’ pedestal

Highlight 21: Roman ‘briquetage’ pedestals from St Georges, North Somerset (2001)

These intriguing looking objects were found by our archaeologists working at St Georges, near Weston-super-Mare in 2001. ‘Briquetage’ is a term applied...
17/03/2014
Flint tools found during excavation

Highlight 15: A Neolithic causewayed enclosure and monument complex in Somerset (2006)

The construction of a gas pipeline between Ilchester and Barrington in Somerset provided the context for the completely unexpected discovery of an...
17/03/2014