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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

Funding from Historic England kick-starts training for two early career Wessex Archaeology staff
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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

With support from The Royal Society of Chemistry Outreach Fund grant, Wessex Archaeology and Sheffield Springs Academy demonstrate the powerful connection between chemistry and heritage.
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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

The mill stone from the mill appears to be cut in half, it has been used as a foundation for a later building has been set into the ground with other stones of different sizes and shapes

Bristol’s Bedminster Mill: Unearthing 170 years of technological ingenuity and urban transformation
Sanday Wreck was revealed after winter storms

Sanday Wreck
Members of the Well-City Salisbury, Wessex Archaeology, Wiltshire Creative, Wiltshire Wildlife Trust and ArtCare teams stand outside in a group in front of a large autumnal tree, the two people in the centre of the group hold a large cheque to celebrate receiving £368,135 of funding from National Lottery Community Fund. There is also a Well-City Salisbury sign in front of the group that says 'Well-City Salisbury 'A creative approach to wellbeing'. The image is © Wessex Archaeology

Well-City Salisbury returns for three more years: Pioneering mental health and wellbeing project secures renewed support from National Lottery Community Fund
Our Conservator carefully cleans the soil from the wooden Bronze Age tool.

Archaeologists uncover one of the oldest and most complete wooden tools ever found in Britain
A participant holds up a sherd of pottery next to a painting inspired by the artefact at the Digging for Erlestoke exhibition to show how the artefact inspired the find.

Digging for Erlestoke: Short film and exhibition at Wiltshire Museum announced