This was a collaborative research and university training project undertaken by the Albion Archaeology, Barbican Research Associates and The British Museum. Excavations were conducted at Hinton St Mary in Dorset during the summer of 2021, to investigate the site of the iconic late-Roman mosaic pavement discovered there in 1963. Photograph by Mike Luke © The British Museum.
Read MoreBetween January 2021 and January 2022, Albion Archaeology undertook archaeological open-area excavation totalling c.7ha, in advance of residential development at Gold Lane, on the north-west edge of Biddenham, Bedfordshire.
Read MoreIn 2021, Albion Archaeology carried out excavations at South Caldecotte, near Bow Brickhill, Milton Keynes.
Read MoreThis was a collaborative research and training project undertaken by the Albion Archaeology, Barbican Research Associates, The British Museum and Cardiff University on behalf of the Nene Valley Archaeological Trust.
Read MoreThe Highways Agency commissioned Albion to evaluate the proposed route of the A6 Clapham Bypass. Extensive archaeological remains were identified in riverside fields immediately south of Oakley Road, near to the railway bridge. The site was excavated by Albion in 2001.
Read MoreAlbion Archaeology have studied many different kinds of early Prehistoric sites, excavating Neolithic cursus monuments, Bronze Age Beaker sites and henges, among others.
Read MoreTrial excavations on top of the mound showed it had been built up of layers of compacted rubble. Nothing was found of the buildings which once crowned the high point of the castle, but we did get pottery dating from the late 11th century, when the castle was built. The geophysical survey showed a line running in a rough circle about 8m inside the rim of the mound. Could this be the shell keep wall, enclosing a smaller stone keep?
One of the earliest features encountered was a pit containing a deliberately buried skull of an aurochs, the now extinct ancestor of the ox.
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