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Stanley West Remembered
Featured Image: Stanley West at West Stow Anglo Saxon Village © SCCAS Dr Stanley West, who was pivotal in the creation of the archaeological units in Suffolk and Norfolk, passed away earlier this year. He was director of the Suffolk Archaeological Unit from 1974-1991 which became part of the Planning Department. Dr West led the…
Rendlesham behind the scenes: metalworking evidence from Rendlesham 2023
Featured image: Volunteers finding metalworking waste at the excavations Eleanor Blakelock is the Rendlesham Revealed project archaeometallurgist, who specialises in investigating metalworking assemblages from the past. She has completed the initial analysis of the artefacts excavated from Rendlesham in 2023. Eleanor is our guest writer this week to tell us more. Although a long and…
Rendlesham behind the scenes: Glass objects from Rendlesham 2022-2023
Featured image: Glass vessel fragment (SF 129) found in the refuse disposal area excavated in 2022 Dr Rose Broadley is the Rendlesham Revealed project specialist for glass artefacts and has completed the initial analysis of the glass excavated from Rendlesham in 2022 and 2023. Rose is our guest writer this week to tell us more.…
Our Favourite Archaeology in Suffolk – Haughley House.
Featured Image: Haughley House © Haughley House We have recently welcomed Jennifer to the Suffolk Finds Recording Team as a Finds Liaison Officer, so we asked her to share with us her favourite archaeological site in Suffolk. Her role is to record archaeological objects found by members of the public onto the Portable Antiquities Scheme…
Viking combs put Ipswich at the heart of the early medieval world
Featured image: Book cover for “An Early Medieval Craft. Antler and Bone Working from Ipswich Excavations 1974-1994” (© Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service). Ipswich can be placed at the centre of the developing early medieval world thanks to a unique collection of Viking combs, as detailed in a new book published this week. “An Early…
Rendlesham behind the scenes: metal objects from Rendlesham 2023
Featured image: early medieval pin from Rendlesham Faye Minter is the Rendlesham Revealed project specialist for metal objects and has completed the initial analysis of the artefacts excavated from Rendlesham in 2023. Faye is our guest writer this week to tell us more. 110 metal small finds were recovered from across the three trenches excavated…
Rendlesham behind the scenes: Feasts and beasts – Recent zooarchaeological discoveries at Rendlesham
Featured image: animal bone Following the excavations at Rendlesham last year, the specialists have been analysing the material and we are now seeing the results. Matilda Holmes, Archaeozoologist, has examined the animal bone excavated from Rendlesham in 2022 and 2023. Matilda is our guest writer this week to tell us more. Feasting The last two…
Roman copper-alloy coin of Julia Maesa, Monk Soham
This Roman coin was found by a local metal detector user near Monk Soham in 2020. The coin is made of a copper alloy and is a denomination known as a sestertius. The front face depicts the draped bust of the Roman empress Juliae Measa, wearing a diadem and facing right. The reverse face depicts…
Rendlesham behind the scenes: the final year of post-excavation processing
Featured image: Volunteers examining soil samples for artefacts and ecofacts, using a magnet to pick out hammerscale Since October 2023, the post-excavation work has been ongoing, following the end of the third and final season of excavation at Rendlesham, as part of our community archaeology project Rendlesham Revealed A group of volunteers have been processing…
Rendlesham Revealed Virtual Online Exhibition
A brand new virtual online tour of the popular exhibition Rendlesham Revealed: The Heart of a Kingdom AD 400-800, previously on display last year at National Trust’s Sutton Hoo, is now available online for everyone to explore. This virtual tour gives a 360° experience to digitally walk around the exhibition, view the exhibits and artefacts,…
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