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Bath Assembly Rooms Cold Bath

10.10.23

Rare 18th-century Cold Bath uncovered at Bath Assembly Rooms

Our archaeologists, working in the basement below the National Trust's 18th-century Bath Assembly Rooms, have revealed the remains of a rare Cold Bath.

Bostock and Wombwell's poster By kind permission of GeorgeWombwell.com All rights reserved 2023

09.10.23

The hunt for the Kingswood elephant: archaeologists conduct survey to find the legendary menagerie beast

Local legend has it that in 1891 an elephant was buried in Kingswood, South Gloucestershire. As part of South Gloucestershire Council’s Kingswood regeneration project, archaeologists from Wessex Archaeology conducted a geophysical survey to see if they could shine a light on the legend and identify the fabled burial site.

Ground penetrating radar survey in St Peter’s Church

10.10.22

Saving Bristol’s St Peter’s Church

Bath Abbey medieval cherub

13.09.22

‘A boy sleeping’: the discovery of a lost 18th-century sculpture at Bath Abbey

Operation Nightingale Flower's Barrow excavation team

26.08.22

Latest Operation Nightingale excavation at Lulworth Iron Age Hill fort

Jackie McKinley, Principal Osteoarchaeologist, holds the skull of a pig during excavations of an Iron Age site on Orkney

23.08.22

Orcadian Odyssey III: Saving Swandro from the waves

Salisbury River Park participants by the River Avon

08.08.22

The Ripple Effect

Picture of our new Heritage Inclusion Officer

04.08.22

New Heritage Inclusion Officer

Victorian Copper Bell

03.08.22

Victorian Copper Bell Unearthed at Southsea

Wessex Archaeology staff discuss St Peter's Church Bristol excavation with visitors during public excavations

01.08.22

Online and in Person: Festival of Archaeology 2022

Women of Steel photo by Maciej Lubomski

26.07.22

Mapping Sheffield’s vibrant past

Rhiannon at Eisteddfod yr Urdd 2022

26.07.22

From Swansea University to STEM Ambassadorship

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