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 from the Leslie Bradford collection and earlier work. We hope to to use this as a tutorial to refresh our memory of specific potte...
Lectures
 Craig Cessford's lecture concludes our lecture series for the Winter/Spring period. Our next lecture will be in October and is a special session to commemorate our member Susan May who passed away recently. Keep checking the website for updated ne...
Fieldwork
 Although our normal field walking is finished, we have walked fields near Cambridge and on the weekend 9th/10th August we ran a small excavation at Ickleton. This was to investigate some interesting features on a geophysical survey. This is on-goi...

Latest articles & reports        (more)

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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