Wow, what a month July turned out to be! It's usually a quiet sort of time for us as we run some archaeological tours of the Peak...

Why has this gate gone out of use? One reason is it’s dimensions are such that it is too small to accommodate modern farm vehicles. Even...

Hello there, we’re back again with another post about looking at the archaeology and history we can see here in our parish of King...

We’ve had occasional posts here about looking at Archaeology and history where you live. We may well be many weeks into the lockdown with...

Hi, Well we’re in to week 9 of lockdown life here. Of course as soon as the word came, we couldn’t work in schools, or with vulnerable...

Staffordshire History Day 2017 It seems that most weeks there’s a conference, meeting or seminar I’d like to go to. Why? Well they are...

A typical motte and bailey castle. The motte is the raised mound and the bailey is the protected area below. Last weekend saw Catherine...

As some of you might know, Catherine and I are working closely with a local group who are exploring the history and archaeology of a...

Assembling for the day! A full house anticipated. Saturday 9th January saw the 25th Derbyshire Archaeology Day unfurl its wings at its...

The arrival of 2016 has brought more archaeology programmes to our television screens with two new series airing this week. The BBC...

The Peel Building, University of Salford Saturday saw the 9th Manchester Archaeology Day – and this was an excellent chance to catch up...

Well, it was good to get home after a weekend away in Anglesey and North Wales. We were so busy and saw so much I’m going to have to do...

Back in January BBC Radio 4’s History of Ideas broadcast a piece by Dr Matt Pope of University College London in which he explored the...

War Memorial at Saltburn, N Yorks Hot off the press is the latest blog from  one our favourite archaeologists – The Urban Prehistorian...

War memorial commemorating the Gallipoli campaign in 1915 Today is ANZAC Day and it is perhaps more poignant than ever with it being the...

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...

I am often asked, “well, what do archaeologists actually do? Well, actually there are a lot of different answers to that question. The...

Just opened at The British Museum (BM) is Defining beauty: the body in ancient Greek art. This is the first major exhibition of sculpture...

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...