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- 21. Upcoming Events - March 2017
- (News)
- ... – what was found during Phase 1 and the early stages of Phase 2 and looking forward to further work. Phase 1 was on the site of the old golf course near Longstanton and the archaeology there was compl ...
- Created on 06 March 2017
- 22. An Introduction to Neolithic to Mid Bronze Age Prehistoric Pottery by Sarah Percival of Cambridgeshire
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- ... ethnographic comparisons most archaeologists believe that clay collection, preparation and potting were undertaken by women. There were no pottery industries or production centres such as those found during ...
- Created on 06 March 2017
- 23. New Guide for Identifying Early Prehistoric Pottery
- (News)
- ... oth guides cover the most common pottery types from the prehistoric period in Cambridgeshire. They do not cover all pottery types found, or in any great detail, but we hope you find them useful to give a ...
- Created on 03 March 2017
- 24. Histon and Impington Archaeology Group
- (Jigsaw Groups)
- ... associations working for similar purposes. All the income of the group is directed towards furthering the above aims. More information, such as upcoming events and reports on activities, can be found ...
- Created on 23 January 2017
- 25. Dig Days Are Over...
- (News)
- ... yer of buried soil. Simon augered the buried soil (see above), and it came out green. 'Aha! Cess pit!' we thought. But we haven't really found anything in it, apart from the odd piece of bone, an ...
- Created on 17 July 2015
- 26. The Roman Kiln, and other digs
- (News)
- ... cluding some Saxon and Iron Age features, and we've even found a bit of residual Roman pottery. Generally the pattern seems to be: Saxon at the top of the field, Saxon and Medieval in the middle, and Med ...
- Created on 16 July 2015
- 27. From the old into the new...
- (News)
- ... out some lovely finds. Nearby, Kev and Heather have been sorting out the ditches, pits and postholes all close together and overlapping. We think we've also found a big post hole...for a modern telegra ...
- Created on 13 July 2015
- 28. Biscuits, booze, and archaeology too...!
- (News)
- ... o be available. James has also been augering the big 'moat' to the west of our site, and has found that it's pretty much flat at the bottom. Since it's about 6m wide at the top, it's probably a hollowway ...
- Created on 11 July 2015
- 29. 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
- 30. Day of the Ditches
- (News)
- ... al intermixed with building debris. We're trying to understand this before we take this layer off. On either side of this deposition layer we've found what may be one, very wide, ditch running underneath ...
- Created on 06 July 2015
- 31. And we're off!
- (News)
- ... instead uncovered some relatively modern burning and building debris, some redeposited natural, and a couple of possible features. After that we moved on to our next trench nearby, which found the ditc ...
- Created on 04 July 2015
- 32. Sorry
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- We're sorry, but that page cannot be found or is currently unavailable. Please use the menus or search to find the content you are looking for. ...
- Created on 02 July 2015
- 33. Final call for dig bookings
- (News)
- ... pe this means you could attend. More information and the booking form can be found here: http://www.jigsawcambs.org/training/dig-2015 Deadline for bookings is next FRIDAY 26TH JUNE - a full week bef ...
- Created on 17 June 2015
- 34. 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
- 35. Artefact Identification Guides
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- Pottery General Pottery Identification - a general guide to pottery types found in Cambridgeshire from Neolithic through to Medieval. Neolithic and Early-Mid ...
- Created on 19 December 2014
- 36. Backfilling line dance!
- (News)
- ... methods to compact the backfill and gradually found that a synchronized approach worked best. We have developed this fundamentally unique approach and thought I'd share the image so that you have it f ...
- Created on 17 November 2014
- 37. Spaces on upcoming training courses
- (News)
- ... can be found here. ...
- Created on 05 November 2014
- 38. Your say on Training 2015!
- (News)
- ... we should run in 2015. The survey can be found here, please complete by Friday 24th October. ...
- Created on 13 October 2014
- 39. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology project
- (News)
- A great post by Eleanor Wilkinson on the highly successful Connecting Local Communities with Local Archaeology project, involving Jigsaw-affiliated societies, can be found here. ...
- Created on 29 August 2014
- 40. New Testpitting Guide
- (News)
- ... free to download. We hope this will be an easy-to-use guide both for those planning a testpitting event, but also for those digging in the field. This guide, and many others can be found in our Download ...
- Created on 28 March 2014