Rendlesham behind the scenes: Post-Excavation; a progress update

Featured image: volunteers finishing to process the last of the soil samples to extract finds from the residues The post-excavation processing is drawing to an end. Over the past 6 months, more than 80 volunteers have been hard at work processing all the material from last summer’s Rendlesham Revealed excavations, with training and support from

New exhibition at Sutton Hoo telling the story of Anglo-Saxon Rendlesham

Featured image: viewing the exhibition © Suffolk County Council Now Open! Rendlesham Revealed: The Heart of A Kingdom AD 400-800 is a new exhibition now open at the National Trust’s Sutton Hoo 23rd March – 29th October 2023. The exhibition takes visitors on a 400-year journey to reveal how the Anglo-Saxon royal settlement at Rendlesham

Being Anglo-Saxon: Building the replica Ipswich ware kiln

Featured image: Volunteers building the replica Ipswich ware kiln Here is another instalment of the Being Anglo-Saxon series, following the progress of the Rendlesham Revealed experimental archaeology kiln. Faye Minter tells us all about the building of the kiln structure. In summer 2022, a small group of volunteers started building the structure of the kiln,

Geophysics training at Lackford, Brecks Fen Edge and Rivers Project.

Featured image: Volunteer conducting a geophysical survey with multi sensor array cart system (MACS) at Lackford (© Suffolk County Council) Last autumn a geophysical survey was carried out over Suffolk Wildlife Trust land at Lackford in the Lark valley, as part of the Brecks Fen Edge and Rivers project . The fields surveyed were known to

Snape Anglo-Saxon Sword on display in Moyse’s Hall Museum

Featured Image: Sword from Snape boat burial (Grave 47) Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service have loaned the Snape sword to Moyse’s Hall Museum, Bury St Edmunds. The sword will be on display as part of the Conflict exhibition, running until 23rd April 2023. This exhibition examines conflict, warriors and weapons over time. On display are

Rendlesham behind the scenes: Post-Excavation; revealing the detail

Featured image:: volunteers in the Cotswold Archaeology warehouse processing and recording the excavated material from Rendlesham After four busy months, the post-excavation work has made excellent progress thanks to the hard work of volunteers processing the material excavated last summer as part of the Rendlesham Revealed project. This week, volunteer Jonathan is our guest writer,

Being Anglo-Saxon: making test bars for the kiln project

Featured image: Volunteers discussing the results of the test bars and pottery making. Another instalment of our Being Anglo-Saxon series following the progress of the Rendlesham Revealed experimental archaeology kiln. Several volunteers made test bars to try to work out the optimum firing temperature of the clay and also to test water absorption. Ruth explains

Suffolk’s Royal Anglo-Saxon history on show in new exhibition

Featured image: Gilded Horse Harness Mount with garnet and shell decoration, found at Rendlesham (© Suffolk County Council) Rendlesham Revealed: The Heart of A Kingdom AD 400-800 is a new exhibition opening at the National Trust’s Sutton Hoo 23rd March – 29th October 2023, telling the story of an Anglo-Saxon royal settlement in Suffolk, the

Fieldwalking at Lackford, Brecks Fen Edge and Rivers project

Featured image: volunteers conducting the fieldwalking survey at Lackford (© Suffolk County Council) Last October, 32 local volunteers led by a small team from Cotswold Archaeology (Suffolk Office)  took part in several days of fieldwalking and surface finds collection at Lackford, as part of the Brecks Fen Edge and Rivers project . The field being surveyed

Rendlesham behind the scenes: Post-excavation work continues & Mandy’s star finds

Featured image: Mandy holding a piece of Roman Glass The post-excavation work continues, with volunteers processing the excavated material discovered at Rendlesham in summer 2022, as part of our community archaeology project Rendlesham Revealed. This week volunteer Mandy tells us more about her experience and a few of her star finds from the environmental samples. I