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The Cotswold team, at the on-site presentation of the DPAA Certificate of Appreciation L-R: Harvey Mills (photographer and finds supervision), Sam Wilson (Lead Archaeologist), Becca Peixotto (DPAA/Henry Jackson Foundation), Rocky Gillette (Director of Partnerships & Innovation, DPAA), Rosanna Price (Engagement Manager), Candice ‘Niki’ Wachtel (Community Engagement Archaeologist), Rachel Westbrook (Geomatician), Duncan Andrews (Archaeologist)

Cotswold Archaeology recognised for remembering the fallen

Over the past three years, Cotswold Archaeology has been developing a partnership with the United States Government department Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). This...
11/11/2025
Work experience student cataloguing archaeological coins

Work Experience with Cotswold Archaeology

Cotswold Archaeology have been welcoming work experience students for over 20 years, encouraging young people at our Kemble, Andover, Milton Keynes and...
04/11/2025
Excavation at Childrey Warren, "In the Shadow of Segsbury"

Could you be our next Trustee?

Cotswold Archaeology is a registered charity and limited company that was established in 1989. We exist to increase public awareness and appreciation...
21/10/2025

Hellos and Goodbyes on our Board of Trustees

Cotswold Archaeology said goodbye at our recent AGM to three long-serving Trustees and welcomed three new arrivals to our Board. Paul Cullen,...
04/09/2025
Showell Nurseries site

Bronze Age Lives in the Wiltshire Landscape

When we broke ground at Showell Nurseries, just outside Chippenham, we expected to uncover a few scattered prehistoric features. What we found...
22/08/2025
Neolithic pottery from Fordingbridge, Hampshire

Making an impression at Fordingbridge

As work began on the first phase of excavations on the western edge of Fordingbridge, Hampshire, just outside the New Forest National...
21/07/2025

Cooking, change and life in Roman Fordingbridge

Last year Cotswold Archaeology’s Andover team excavated a site on the western edge of Fordingbridge, Hampshire, just outside the New Forest National...
14/07/2025

Life and Industry in Roman Gloucester: Excavations at Centre Severn

Earlier surveys – including desk-based assessments, archaeological trenching, and geophysical surveys – had already suggested that extensive Roman remains might lie beneath...
30/04/2025

Mesolithic antlers, Roman family cemeteries, and Saxon surprises: Archaeology along the Childrey Warren Pipeline

In 2018 and 2019 we excavated along a new 6km long pipeline between Childrey Warren and Wantage in Oxfordshire. The new route...
14/04/2025

You spin me right round baby, right round: Iron Age spindle whorl from Land West of Northampton

In 2022 and 2023, Cotswold Archaeology’s Milton Keynes field team conducted archaeological excavations at a site to the west of Northampton. A...
24/03/2025

The Life and Trials of a Dislectic Archaeologist

I have been an archaeologist for over 50 years man and boy and have never tired of finding things, be they a...
21/03/2025

Autism in archaeology: Harnessing strengths, navigating challenges, and building an inclusive workplace

I’m Jacky, I’m a Senior Finds Officer and I’ve been at CA for approaching 12 years. I was diagnosed autistic 4.5 years...
20/03/2025