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Drone used by archaeologists to record well at Sheffield Castle

Archaeologists use drone to film inside medieval well at Sheffield Castle

Archaeologists from Wessex Archaeology, working alongside FlyThru, have surveyed a medieval well within the walls of Sheffield Castle.
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archeological survey expert undertakes drone survey of church, standing in churchyard

Archaeologists and community record 600-year-old church in Happisburgh, Norfolk, before it’s lost to the sea

With severe coastal erosion threatening to wipe the church in Happisburgh in a matter of decades, North Norfolk District Council commissioned our experts to undertake a community recording project to capture the church for posterity.
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Archaeologist Arthur Hollindrake is crouched next to the trackway.

6,000-year-old Prehistoric Trackway Discovered in Somerset
Mapping the Maritime History of the Firth of Forth: Pittiwee Harbour

Mapping the Maritime History of the Firth of Forth

A field archaeologist holds up a black pottery sherd to the camera.

Lost Anglo Saxon Village and Stone Age Finds Uncovered on East Anglia TWO
Tackling the skills shortage with Historic England’s Archaeology Mentoring Partnerships Programme, Jasmine assesses pottery at desk

Tackling the skills shortage with Historic England’s Archaeology Mentoring Partnerships Programme

A child using a microscope, they are looking at organic matter preserved between two glass slides

A Positive Reaction: How Archaeology is Inspiring the Next Generation of Scientists
A historic engraving of the siege on Quebec in the late 1770s, courtesy of the National Army Museum, London.

Scientific analysis and community led historical research leads to identification of 250 year old Sanday wreck
Richard O'Neill on HS2 site wearing a green hard hat and smiling

In memory of Richard O’Neill
A number of books selected by our staff for World Book Day

World Book Day 2025 - Book Recommendations
A field archaeologist can be seen on our Sheffield Castle next to the remains of the civil war stakes.

Team excavating Sheffield Castle unearth the first surviving examples of 17th-century Civil War abatis in castle moat

An assemblage of Roman Black Burnish ware pottery. Near-complete bowls, jugs, dishes and fragments of broken pieces of pottery are piled up. Some of the pottery is more orange than black which shows where the process of making Black Burnish ware has not worked.

BBC Two’s Digging for Britain to feature important archaeological discoveries relating to industrial-scale Roman pottery production at The Moors at Arne