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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Local links
Oxford Archaeology - East Part of Oxford Archaeology and continues to serve the people of Cambridgeshire and the eastern region.
Jigsaw, Cambridgeshire Jigsaw assists local history and archaeological societies in historical research, excavation, artefact identification, recording, and much more.
Cambridge Antiquarian Society Providing access for local people to the local history, architecture and archaeology of Cambridgeshire (which now includes the old County of Huntingdon and the new Unitary Authority of Peterborough).
RheeSearch A Cambridgeshire based group who specialise in geophysical surveying
Fen Edge Archaeology Group The Fen Edge Archaeology Group aim is to promote further understanding of the archaeology in the parishes of Willingham, Rampton, Cottenham, Landbeach and Waterbeach. They organise a programme of lectures and field activities.
Dominic Shelley's blog Dominic Shelley's archaeological investigations in SW Cambridgeshire.
Useful links
The National Archives, Kew, London
Council for British Archaeology
English Heritage
The National Trust
Heritage Gateway Searchable on-line database of Historic Environment Records
Portable Antiquities Scheme
Potsherd Paul Tyers' excellent site for Roman pottery
ANY-Villiage Project A community website portal that offers local information on over 15,000 cities, towns and villages in the UK by registering each village and town name as a domain with the .co.uk extension. For example: www.haslingfield.co.uk
Wiki: Ancient Rome Portal. Links to online references on currency, law , politics, art etc. of this period.
Bill Thayer's Roman site This internationally renowned site is superb for Roman archaeology
Dental Analysis in Archaeology by David DiGiallorenzo How teeth can be a source of archaeological evidence.
University Links
Here is just a selection of Universities offering Archaeology courses or material:
Birkbeck Bradford Bristol Cambridge Durham Leicester Nottingham Southampton York East Anglia
Please let us know your own suggestions for additional links, or if any of the above fail to work. Email: webmaster@cafg.net.

Cambridge Archaeology Field Group

Actively contributing to archaeology in the Cambridgeshire area.

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