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21. Upcoming Events - October 2017: (News); ... hot and make your own stick bow and arrow to take home. Perhaps you’ll prefer to meet some of our local archaeologists and find out about their areas of expertise, go on a guided tour of our Iron Age hillf ...; Created on 27 September 2017
22. First World War Community Workshop: (News); ... During the workshops, there will be the opportunity to learn how to use the Home Front Legacy recording app to create new knowledge about the legacy of the First World War in your local area. You will ...; Created on 25 August 2017
23. Upcoming Events - August 2017: (News); ... Legacy Big Recording Month Join Home Front Legacy 1914-18 for their big recording month. Throughout August there’ll be encouraging people to research and record Home Front sites in their local area using ...; Created on 28 July 2017
24. Upcoming Events - July 2017: (News); ... , Sandy, Bedfordshire, SG19 3JR All welcome Twenty years ago this year a major archaeological dig took place on the area where the new houses are on Station Road. The finds were very significant: remai ...; Created on 27 June 2017
25. Oakington and Westwick History Society: (Jigsaw Groups); ... preparation for the build of our new pavilion. After an initial trench evaluation two excavations areas were opened within the footprint of the new sports pavilion (Area A) and the MUGA (Area B). Both ...; Created on 28 April 2017
26. An Introduction to Neolithic to Mid Bronze Age Prehistoric Pottery by Sarah Percival of Cambridgeshire: (Content); ... Examples of these urns were often inverted over cremated remains in pits, the area around sometimes packed with stones. In East Anglia the most widely studied group of Deverel-Rimbury pottery are the ...; Created on 06 March 2017
27. The Roman Kiln, and other digs: (News); ... the dig, it's going well! The recording of the old areas 1, 2 and 3 has taken longer than expected, as we keep finding more features! However, we're getting to the point where we need to draw a line u ...; Created on 16 July 2015
28. From the old into the new...: (News); 13 July Today we're still finishing off digging and recording Areas 1 and 2, and the old Area 3 trenches. In Area 1, Chris is still chasing down her ditch with its lovely black fill, and still gettin ...; Created on 13 July 2015
29. All the best-laid plans...: (News); ... and recording Areas 1 and 2, and two trenches in Area 3. It was going to be great. Everyone arrived, amazingly chirpy after the previous long day, set off to site, and it was all dandy. I had a very exciting ...; Created on 12 July 2015
30. Biscuits, booze, and archaeology too...!: (News); ... g some more ditches(!) including a possible prehistoric ditch running N-S across the site. The beamslot has been excavated in Area 3, and having extended the trench, we think we have another beamslot runni ...; Created on 11 July 2015
31. Making progress: (News); ... r, yesterday.... We finally found the sides of the cut of the ditch in Area 2 (above). Hooray! Rog and team had noticed a colour change in the fill on Wednesday and had stopped to record, but yester ...; Created on 10 July 2015
32. Medieval pottery - new and old: (News); ... into new areas as population grew, and then contraction and abandonment of these new areas after the Black Death decimated the population. Caoption has to be: 'ooooh, pretty pot!' And more pretty p ...; Created on 08 July 2015
33. Of cabbages and kings: (News); ... many marquees can boast their own tea urn and wifi hub... We continued excavating yesterday's features. In Area 1 we've almost finished recording the strange modern burning and redeposited natural, ha ...; Created on 07 July 2015
34. Day of the Ditches: (News); ... shellyware and lots of bone. In particular, Area 2 has uncovered a very large ditch, and so far we've only uncovered one side of it, and we suspect the other side (2m away!) may still be under the baul ...; Created on 06 July 2015
35. And we're off!: (News); ... quantities of Medieval pottery and bone. We now have a large ditch exposed here, plus possibly several other features. We then moved to our third trench area, and dug two small trenches where we suspec ...; Created on 04 July 2015
36. Dig filling up!: (News); ... y a bit short of old-hands to take part in our 'not just for rookies' package: giving fieldschool talks, supervising areas of the excavation and finds processing, shadowing professional archaeologists ...; Created on 29 April 2015
37. West Wickham and District Local History Club: (Jigsaw Groups); West Wickham & District Local History Club was founded in 1984 with the aims of fostering interest in and appreciation of the history of the local area. The Club arranges a programme of talks and local ...; Created on 22 December 2014
38. Highly Commended at British Archaeological Awards: (News); ... th other nominees and award winners. Jigsaw Cambridgeshire works with voluntary groups across the county enabling people to investigate the history of their local areas. The project runs free traini ...; Created on 17 July 2014
39. Shortlisted for BAA Awards: (News); ... people to investigate the history of their own local areas. Jigsaw runs free training and expertise, and has an equipment resource so that groups can borrow tools and specialist kit for carrying out geophysics ...; Created on 04 June 2014
40. North Cambridge Group now called CamDig: (News); ... t very catchy) to 'Cambridge Diggers' or 'CamDig' for short. This gives us more scope to branch out into other areas of Cambridge should we so wish. Attendees heard a short presentation by Al Hunter o ...; Created on 10 April 2014

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