Significant Suffolk Anglo-Saxon archaeology to be celebrated at event

Featured image: Cruciform brooch found at Rendlesham Rendlesham Revealed, the Suffolk community archaeology project which uncovered a 1,400 year-old royal settlement of the East Anglian Kings in the Deben Valley, is being celebrated at a free event on 16 May at the Corn Exchange in Ipswich. The event is open to the public from 11am

Suffolk’s Unforgettable Garden Story

Featured Image: Crows Hall, Debenham (© Historic England Archive) ‘Suffolk’s Unforgettable Garden Story’ is a project working with volunteers to identify historic sites to be included on the National Heritage List for England, swelling the number in Suffolk from 23 to 35. Patience Shone, one of the volunteer coordinators on the project, is our guest

Did you dig with the Sutton Hoo Research Project 1983-1992?

Featured Image: Excavations at Sutton Hoo (© Lindsay Lee via:http://suttonhoo.org/images/nggallery/page/3) This year is the 40th anniversary of the Sutton Hoo Society and they want to hear from anyone who helped excavate or were involved with the Sutton Hoo excavations between 1983 to 1992, so they can capture all the stories. There were several hundred people

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

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

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