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...
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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
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 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
Feb 19, 2015
Teaching the Stone Age to Iron Age – where to begin?
Teaching ‘Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age’ is now required as part of KS2 History curriculum in England. For many...
Nancy Detchon
Jan 19, 2015
Stone Age to Iron Age in Cheshire
What a wonderful day we had in Cheshire! Armed with our trenches, tools and artefacts, Dr Ian Parker Heath (trusty archaeologist husband...
Nancy Detchon
Jan 18, 2015
Teaching ‘changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age’
At the end of my prehistoric archaeology workshops, teachers often say to me that they have learned as much as the children have. Of...
Nancy Detchon
Jan 17, 2015
Prehistoric Levenshulme!
After delivering a workshop covering the Stone Age to Iron Age to Y4s at St Andrews CE Primary School in Levenshulme in October, the...
Nancy Detchon
Nov 30, 2014
Back to the Stone Age for Ormskirk!
Y3s at Aughton St Michaels CE Primary School in Ormskirk became archaeologists for the morning when they excavated artefacts from the...
Nancy Detchon
Nov 19, 2014
Archaeology Day at Garstang
I love delivering Archaeology Days, because Archaeology Days allow time for me to really develop children’s interest and enable them to...
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...
Nancy Detchon
Feb 13, 2012
Discovering Prehistoric Buxton!
The brief from Burbage Primary School was quite specific – a day that would take the children away from the school grounds, discover the...
Nancy Detchon
Feb 13, 2012
Arbor Low Environs Project: Test-pitting
We have now finalised the dates for the test-pitting in a field near Arbor Low. This phase of the project will run from 26th March – 7th...
Nancy Detchon
Feb 13, 2012
Make and Break with CADW
Interesting ideas for engaging children in archaeology are coming from Cadw and Archaeology Wales. On the back of their excavations in...
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