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Phil Harding standing in front of the trilithon at Stonehenge

18.06.26

Discovery led by Phil Harding reveals 5,000-year-old ‘prototype’ for Stonehenge solar alignment

Radiocarbon dated to around 5,000 years ago, the discovery reveals evidence for the earliest known alignment with the solstice in the Stonehenge landscape.

Drone used by archaeologists to record well at Sheffield Castle

21.05.26

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.

08.11.22

Help map the public artworks of Sheffield as new digital map is launched

13.10.22

Meet Amy - our Year in Industry Placement Student

Ground penetrating radar survey in St Peter’s Church

10.10.22

Saving Bristol’s St Peter’s Church

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

04.08.22

New Heritage Inclusion Officer

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