Cambridge Archaeology Field Group

What's on?

	Wednesday at Bar Hill
	We will be carrying on holding meetings at the Oxford Archaeology East HQ at Bar Hill during August and September as we carry on assessing finds from the Wimpole parterre garden. We hope to have more tutorials to refresh our memory of specific pot...
	Lectures
	Our next Winter lecture is on 6th November when Samuel Corke will talk on "The whats, whys and hows of environmental archaeology". Lecture held at the McDonald Building, Downing Street, Cambridge from 7.30pm.
	Fieldwork
	We are finally able to go field walking at Ickleton, Grange Road, this Sunday 17th November. Hopefully the weather will be OK.

Latest articles & reports (more)

	Kingston Pastures Report
	Full report of the Results of Fieldwalking at Kingston Pastures Farm, Cambridgeshire, 2001
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	Ickleton Full Draft Report
	The full report for our excavations at Ickleton can now be viewed or downloaded from the Articles and reports drop down above.
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	Parterre excavation 2023 Draft
	Excavation on the parterre north of Wimpole Hall of five small trenches by members of CAFG confirmed the position of the red brick walls of Thomas Chicheley’s 1650s garden.
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	Fieldwalking and Field Drain Finds
	An often ignored type of find is the humble field drain. Learn more about them and their history...
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	Identifying military shell casings
	An article on how to identify the source and date of manufacture from the head stamps of typical WWII shell cases.
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	In the Footsteps of Fox Part 1
	Cambridge Archaeology Field Group has been fieldwalking since 1978. We have been invited to produce these posters, by the McDonald Institute and Magdalene College based upon our work.
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	In the Footsteps of Fox Part 2
	Part 2 of the poster
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	Wimpole: silent voices and deserted homes
	The full main report of our HLF funded project at Wimpole is now available for download. Appendices giving detailed information are available on request.
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Lecture Programme 2019/2020

Lectures are held in the seminar room of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Division of Archaeology, Downing street, Cambridge at 7.30 p.m. The lectures arranged so far for 2019/2020 are:

2nd October Paddy Lambert, Oxford Archaeology East on "The Weird and Wonderful World of the Romans"

6th November 40th anniversary celebration and presentation of Val Whittaker Memorial Prize

4th December Cancelled

8th January Bill Franklin on "Ramsey Abbey the Anarchy and the enigma of Burwell Castle"

5th February Mike Coles on "Excavations of an 18th Century Farmhouse in Wimpole, Cambs"
A report on the results of the Group's excavation of "Mr Ratford's house" in a meadow near Home Farm, showing the outline of the 18th century house and its medieval predecessor.

4th March Gwil Owen, MacDonald Institute for Archaeological Research on "Archaeological Photography- why and how" .

8th April AGM and president's talk: "Large or High Status Middle Saxon Buildings in the East of England; new information and some thoughts"

Cambridge Archaeology Field Group

Actively contributing to archaeology in the Cambridgeshire area.

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