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.

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

Fieldwalking Survey at Rendlesham 2023

Featured image: Featured image: fieldwalking with volunteers Last year, in September 2023, fieldwalking took place at Rendlesham with volunteers as part of the Rendlesham Revealed community archaeology project. Tom Cox, a PhD student from University of East Anglia who led the fieldwalking, is our guest writer to share the results. Fieldwalking at Rendlesham took place

1,400-year-old temple discovered at Suffolk royal settlement

Featured image: Drone photograph of the excavations at Rendlesham in 2023, showing the archaeological remains, including the probable temple or cult house (left hand side) and boundary ditch (centre).  (© Suffolk County Council; photo by Jim Pullen) A rare, possible pre-Christian temple from the time of the East Anglian Kings, has been found at Rendlesham,

The Final Week at the Rendlesham Excavations 2023 (Week 7)

Featured image: Volunteers excavating and recording the archaeology (foreground) and cleaning the trench (background) (taken by Graham Allen) During the final week of the Rendlesham Revealed excavations the volunteers finished digging and recording the archaeological features as well as cleaning the trenches ready for the final drone photographs. Several new discoveries were made including another

The Excavations at Rendlesham 2023 (Week 6)

Featured image: volunteer sorting the objects by material type and marking the context number on to the animal bone. (taken by Graham Allen). In week 6, many of the features have been excavated and are now being recorded with the GPS for the post-excavation plan. Volunteers have also been cracking on with the finds processing