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Inside the Urn: Micro-Excavating Our Roman Cremation Burial from Sacrewell Farm

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Have I Just Found a Stone Tool? How to Tell if Your “Worked Stone” Is the Real Deal

Stone tools are among the most insightful links to our prehistoric past. Pick up a piece of worked flint, and you're holding something someone shaped with their own hands thousands of years ago. But how can you be sure that what you've found is a tool, and not just a bit of broken stone that looks like one?

The Lives that Shaped Lytham Hall

This July marks our first season of crowdfunded digging at Lytham Hall in Lancashire to see what secrets may lie buried beneath this remarkable estate. Before we dust off our trowels, join us as we explore the people and events that shaped Lytham Hall's past - and why they make its archaeology so promising...

Unearthing Sacrewell’s Lost Roman Villa

This autumn, we're heading to the heart of the Nene Valley to uncover what a site in Cambridgeshire (last touched by archaeologists in the 1970s) still has to tell us about life in Roman Britain. But why here? Read on to find out!

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