Cambridge Archaeology Field Group

What's on?

	Wednesday at Bar Hill
	We will be carrying on holding meetings at the Oxford Archaeology East HQ at Bar Hill as we continue assessing finds. We are sorting material from recent field walking to separate out the flints for expert analysis.
	Lectures
	The lecture at the McDonald building on June 3rd will be given by Imogen Gunn, Collections Manager at the Museum of Arch & Anth. Entitled "One box at a time" it describes the processes of moving about 300,000 items to a new off-site store.
	Fieldwork
	Our field walking at Northfield Farm, Bottisham last weekend is probably the last field walking until the Autumn season. So keep watching your emails for the up to date information on future activities.

Latest articles & reports (more)

	What is that piece of pottery? - No.2
	What is that piece of pottery? A tutorial on our typical finds, No 2 - Brown stoneware
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	What is that piece of pottery? - No.1
	What is that piece of pottery? A tutorial on our typical finds, No 1 - Staffordshire slipware
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	Oysters as food in Britain
	Some often ignored finds are the oyster shells - but they have an interesting story to tell
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	The pottery fabrics we find often have different colours
	What makes a pot surface red or black in colour or with a different colour in the core.
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	Kingston Pastures Report
	Full report of the Results of Fieldwalking at Kingston Pastures Farm, Cambridgeshire, 2001
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	Ickleton Full Draft Report
	The full report for our excavations at Ickleton can now be viewed or downloaded from the Articles and reports drop down above.
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	Parterre excavation 2023 Draft
	Excavation on the parterre north of Wimpole Hall of five small trenches by members of CAFG confirmed the position of the red brick walls of Thomas Chicheley’s 1650s garden.
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	Fieldwalking and Field Drain Finds
	An often ignored type of find is the humble field drain. Learn more about them and their history...
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	Identifying military shell casings
	An article on how to identify the source and date of manufacture from the head stamps of typical WWII shell cases.
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	In the Footsteps of Fox Part 1
	Cambridge Archaeology Field Group has been fieldwalking since 1978. We have been invited to produce these posters, by the McDonald Institute and Magdalene College based upon our work.
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	In the Footsteps of Fox Part 2
	Part 2 of the poster
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	Wimpole: silent voices and deserted homes
	The full main report of our HLF funded project at Wimpole is now available for download. Appendices giving detailed information are available on request.
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This Season's Lectures

The 2011-2012 lectures will be held at 7.30 on the following Wednesdays, normally in the seminar room at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. The season begins with:

5th October Mark Hinman on "Skeleton Green revisited -
Excavations at Braughing Roman Cemetery"

2 November Dr Richard Preece on "Discoveries at Happisburgh"
This lecture will be held in the South lecture room in the Department of Archaeology

7 December David Jacques on "Mesolithic sites at Stonehenge"

11 January Mike Coles on the Group's recent fieldwork, including
excavations at Wimpole

1 February Robert Harding on "Spiceworld: A Medieval port of trade on the Malabar Coast"

7 March Dr Rachel Ballantyne on "Arable farming and economy along the fen-edge"

4 April AGM and Dr Paul Spoerry on "Medieval pottery in Cambridgeshire; a new regional review"

2 May Dr Steve Boreham on "Unseen Cambridge - geopogy beneath your feet"

6 June Patricia Duff on "Gobekli Tepe (11,500 year old stone circle site in southern Turkey) - more questions than answers"

Cambridge Archaeology Field Group

Actively contributing to archaeology in the Cambridgeshire area.

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