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| Banwell Wint Hill |
The Romano-British site at Wint Hill between Banwell and Winscombe has been excavated on many occasions since 1950 but still does not seem to be generally known. It extends over several fields, has good earthworks and is likely to have been the main Roman settlement in the valley of the River Lox Yeo, the wide valley probably indicated in the nearby place name Winscombe.... |
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| Portbury Primary School |
Excavations by Andy Young and the Avon Archaeological Unit were carried out in 2004 and 2005 on the site of an extension to St Mary’s Church of England Voluntary-aided Primary School in Portbury not far from the medieval parish church which is probably the site of an early medieval minster..... |
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| Radiocarbon Grant to South Somerset Archaeological Research Group (Interim) |
The £1050 grant was used to pay for three radiocarbon dates relating to the excavation of a barrow ditch at Crissells Green in South Cadbury
parish which was carried out by SSARG to clarify the nature, condition and development of the site following a previous inconclusive investigation. |
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| Red Earthenware Pottery from the Chandos Glass Cone, Bridgwater Pt 1 |
The excavation of the Chandos glass cone in Bridgwater, Somerset by the Somerset Industrial Archaeological Society in 1976-77 led to the discoveryof a large quantity of 19th and early 20th Century pottery..... |
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Red Earthenware Pottery from the Chandos Glass Cone, Bridgwater Pt 2
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Discussion. According to the documentary evidence pottery has been made in Bridgwater since the Medieval period (La Paturel 1968, 125)..... |
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Somerset in the Ages of Arthur and Alfred (400 to 900AD) Project: New Radiocarbon Dates for Early Medieval Somerset |
When Professor Philip Rahtz wrote about ‘The Dark Ages 400-700’ in 1982 he said ‘we must regard cemeteries as fundamental to dark age studies’....... |
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| South West Archaeological Framework Draft Strategy (SWAFS) |
The purpose of the draft strategy is to identify the resources in the region which could address research priorities within the identified research aims of the agenda. |
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| SWAFS Action Plan |
Action plan derived from above strategy |
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| SWAFS Appendix |
Themed project summaries |
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| Winscombe Project |
33 one-metre-square test pits have now been dug in the parish so far (mainly in Winscombe village and the hamlets of Sandford and Woodborough), 15 buildings have been surveyed by the Somerset Vernacular Buildings Research Group (mainly in Sandford), and much of the medieval documentation for the parish transcribed and translated (by Martin Ecclestone)........ |
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| SANHS & SCC Archaeology Conference 14 Jan 2012 |
The 308 delegates who attended this all day conference were treated to a rich banquet of fascinating information served up by ten expert speakers. |
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