KS2 British Prehistory – Dorstone Hill excavations
Hello again! Now, as I blogged briefly the other day, a team from the University of Manchester led by our friend Prof Julian Thomas, has...
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Nancy Detchon
Jul 6, 2015
KS2 British prehistory – a summer of action!
If you are a Key Stage 2 history teacher/co-ordinator, this summer sees some really important excavations on famous and less famous...
Nancy Detchon
Jun 5, 2015
Catching up with Castleton: this year’s excavation.
Colin Merrony (with his back to us!) of the Archaeology Dept, University of Sheffield talking to Dave Barratt, Derbyshire County...
Nancy Detchon
May 27, 2015
What do archaeologists actually do? Refitting or piecing together the past .
Here’s the second in our occasional series of what archaeologists actually do, beyond excavating. You might want to look at What do...
Nancy Detchon
May 14, 2015
Stone circle found on Dartmoor but which is it?
Barbrook I stone circle in the Peak District. There is a great deal of interest currently in a stone circle, which has been found on...
Nancy Detchon
May 12, 2015
What’s in your school grounds?
Hey, we couldn’t resist this one – a school in Reading has come up trumps – a hoard of Roman coins has been discovered in its grounds!...
Nancy Detchon
Apr 28, 2015
Roman London – a new perspective.
One of the things we try to do here at Enrichment is bring you news of lectures, seminars and other presentations where you can get to...
Nancy Detchon
Apr 24, 2015
The edge of the Roman Empire is rescued!
If someone asked you if you knew of Alauna, chances are you’d say no. If someone asked you if you’d heard of Maryport, a few of you might...
Nancy Detchon
Apr 23, 2015
The things you find when you upgrade a railway: prehistoric butter churn?
There has been a lot of talk in the media over the years about developments such as Crossrail, HS1 and HS2, especially about the cost of...
Nancy Detchon
Apr 21, 2015
FAO teachers in Cheshire: July excavation at Norton priory
One of the things we want to do here at Enrichment is to let people know about the world of archaeology. I bet that the first thing that...
Nancy Detchon
Apr 2, 2015
A matter of life and death: large medieval cemetery in Cambridge.
A report published yesterday has revealed a large cemetery in Cambridge which has been dated to the medieval period. The site was...
Nancy Detchon
Mar 30, 2015
Its not all Bronze in the Bronze Age!
One of the metaphorical things about archaeology is that archaeologists like to put real things into categories so they can make sense of...
Nancy Detchon
Mar 24, 2015
Stone Age to Medieval – now that’s a multi-use site!
Down in South Devon a team of local enthusiasts and volunteers have just completed a two week excavation of a site which looks as if it...
Nancy Detchon
Mar 23, 2015
Orkney ahoy?
Its getting to that time of year when we begin to look around to what’s going to be happening in the archaeological world over the summer...
Nancy Detchon
Mar 10, 2015
A new WWI heritage trail in Norfolk?
Norfolk, quiet rural backwater right? Nothing much ever happens there . . . if only that were true! After last week’s story of the...
Nancy Detchon
Mar 9, 2015
The earliest human?
Hot on the heels of our Palaeolithic pt 2 blog comes what will be the biggest and oldest news of the week. It comes from Ethiopia where...
Nancy Detchon
Mar 5, 2015
Why is finding wheat that is 8,000 years old exciting?
On the face of it, finding wheat DNA from a sample dated to 8,000 years ago shouldn’t be so exciting. After all, people had been growing...
Nancy Detchon
Mar 4, 2015
Amazing Anglo-Saxon pendant found by student!
A muddy field in Norfolk, in December, in the cold and wet might not sound promising but this did not deter Tom Lucking. A first year...
Nancy Detchon
Mar 3, 2015
Its not all prehistory – the search for more of Roman Worcester.
Here at Enrichment Through Archaeology, a good deal of out time is spent focusing on the prehistory of Britain. This is not to say that...
Nancy Detchon
Jun 21, 2012
The Megalithic Portal Live in the Peak District…
Some of you may already know about the The Megalithic Portal, a website which describes itself as the top destination for Prehistoric and...
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