Our Learning and Community Engagement Officer Ryan popped down to the Heath excavations today to see what’s been happening. Ryan caught up with George on Barrow 19, where they have just finished excavating the bottom of one of the...
Our main stop today is Barrow 4, next to the cricket pitch. The enigmatic Barrow 4 with two barrows. We can see from the photos below that Barrow 4 has an interesting construction. When it was built, the bank was defined with two...
Today, as we near the end of the penultimate week of excavations, we come to Barrow 1 for the last time. Barrow 1, The Big One – and it is certainly living up to its name. The ditch around Barrow 1 is bigger than any of our archaeologist...
We’ve reached Daily Dig Diary Number 13! Unlucky for some, but not for us as we catch up with more activity from the Heath. Back on Barrow 19 (the one with all the urns!) work continues on digging out the ancient pits in the centre of th...
Fantastic 4 is truly living up to its name, as today its was discovered that this site contains not one, but two barrows. This is highly unusual. But should we have expected anything less from Barrow 4? If this wasn’t perplexing enough, it seem...
BIG NEWS! The third urn to be found on Barrow 19 came out today! We already excavated one urn from Barrow 19 last year, and knew there was another one to go back to. This one, however, was only found during this year’s excavation....
Enduring the heat, our team of volunteers has been soldiering on with Barrow 14. Barrow 14 continues to puzzle with new, and not always interesting features. This dark spot for example: While we hoped it would reveal something exciting, it tur...
Today’s Daily Dig Diary sees our work on these pre-historic sites brought right up-to-date, as we view Ken’s fantastic Barrow 4 using drone technology. Barrow 4 is made up of a mound encircled by a bank, which were both originally...
Today the excitement on Barrow 19 grows as we find the location of ANOTHER burial urn! The new urn can just be seen in the top centre of the photo, just under the horizontal measure. Barrow 19 was re-excavated this year to unearth an urn which was sp...
