The Excavations at Rendlesham 2022 (Week 4)

Featured image: Young people from Suffolk Young Carers join the volunteers on-site © Katie Everard / Suffolk County Council The volunteers continue to make excellent progress excavating and recording the archaeology. This week our team included eight volunteers from Suffolk Family Carers aged 12-14. Throughout the week, they all learnt how to excavate the archaeology,

The Excavations at Rendlesham 2022 (Week 3)

Featured image: A volunteer mentor and Matt recording a post hole The volunteers continue to work hard excavating the archaeological features. This week the volunteers have made a start on the excavation of the remains of the large timber hall. Only the foundation trenches for the walls and post holes now survive, and these are

The Excavations at Rendlesham 2022 (Week 2)

Featured image: Volunteers cleaning the trenches and excavating a boundary ditch © Darren Olley/Suffolk County Council The trenches are now open and we have welcomed our first volunteers to site. Before we can start to excavate the archaeological features, they needed “cleaning”. This involved our volunteers hoeing the surface of the open trench to remove

Returning to The Excavations at Rendlesham 2022 (Week 1)

Featured image: Opening the trenches with the machine and using a GPS device to map out the pre-excavation plan We’re back at Rendlesham this summer for a second season of fieldwork, as part of the Rendlesham Revealed community archaeology project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. This year throughout the summer we will be

Geophysical Survey in the Deben Valley 2021

Featured image: volunteer conducting a magnetometry survey Over the course of several weeks in 2021, 13 volunteers from the Suffolk Archaeological Field Group conducted a magnetometry survey on a ploughed field in the Deben Valley, as part of the Rendlesham Revealed project. The aim of the survey was to look at a new area in

Fieldwalking Survey at Rendlesham 2021

Featured image: Professor Williamson fieldwalking with Rendlesham Primary School Tom Williamson is a professor of Landscape History at University of East Anglia, and he is one of the academic advisors for the Rendlesham Revealed project. As an expert in fieldwalking, Tom is also leading the fieldwalking surveys taking place in the Deben valley. Tom is

Soil Micromorphology from Rendlesham – Excavations 2021

Featured image: Professor French taking soil samples. Professor Charles French is a professor of geoarchaeology at University of Cambridge, and the specialist advisor in environmental sampling for the Rendlesham Revealed project. Charly has completed the initial analysis of the environmental sampling taken from the Rendlesham excavations last summer. Charly is our guest writer this week

Pottery from Rendlesham – Excavations 2021

Sue Anderson, a freelance specialist is the Rendlesham Revealed project specialist for pottery and has completed the initial analysis of the pottery excavated from Rendlesham last summer. Sue is our guest writer this week to tell us more. The identification and recording of the pottery from the site involves dividing sherds into ‘fabrics’ – the

Glass artefacts from Rendlesham – Excavations 2021

Featured image: identifying a glass fragment using an eye-glass. Dr Rose Broadley is the Rendlesham Revealed project specialist for glass artefacts and has completed the initial analysis of the glass excavated from Rendlesham last summer. Rose is our guest writer this week to tell us more. My first step after receiving the glass finds from Rendlesham was

Metal Objects from Rendlesham – Excavations 2021

Faye Minter is the Rendlesham Revealed project specialist for metal objects and has completed the initial analysis of the artefacts excavated from Rendlesham last summer. Faye is our guest writer this week to tell us more. Eighty-three metal objects were uncovered during the excavations at Rendlesham last summer. The variety of metal objects recovered is