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- 21. An Introduction to Neolithic to Mid Bronze Age Prehistoric Pottery by Sarah Percival of Cambridgeshire
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- ... the household and was handmade, mostly formed using coil construction. The pots were fired in a domestic hearth, bonfire or clamp, at temperatures of 600 to 700 degrees centigrade. Based on evidence from ...
- Created on 06 March 2017
- 22. New Guide for Identifying Early Prehistoric Pottery
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- ... 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
- 23. Jigsaw Cambridgeshire Update 2017
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- ... e people to get actively involved in discovering, understanding and protecting their own local heritage. If you want to affiliate your community group with Jigsaw to make the most of our free resource ...
- Created on 01 March 2017
- 24. From the old into the new...
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- ... itu - here's Dave shamelessly posing with the pot uncovered by someone else yesterday! Alex and John have excavated another ditch in this trench and pulled out the most enormous animal jaw. We are so ...
- Created on 13 July 2015
- 25. Making progress
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- ... m up by type (Pottery, bone, CBM, shell etc.) so they can go straight to our specialists for identification. It still looks like most of our material is 12th-14th century, but we'd love to find something earl ...
- Created on 10 July 2015
- 26. Medieval pottery - new and old
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- ... but he was still pleased with our progress! He says our site and finds mostly date from the 12th to 14th centuries AD, and fit the general Medieval village pattern of growth from the 12th-13th centurie ...
- Created on 08 July 2015
- 27. Of cabbages and kings
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- ... 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
- 28. Day of the Ditches
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- ... . We're looking forward to finding out, and digging up more Medieval cow and horse bones in the meantime! Our most puzzling trench remains Trench 1, which has a layer of modern burning and redeposited natu ...
- Created on 06 July 2015
- 29. Upcoming Human Bone course (and others)
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- ... world-class teacher - do make the most of it! You'll get to handle and identify human bones for yourself. Book here. Flint Knapping Demo and Workshop on Saturday 30th May at Ramsey Heights Countrysid ...
- Created on 16 April 2015
- 30. Welcome to our new affiliated groups
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- ... for almost a year now, since holding a recruitment drive for a north Cambridge group in Arbury Community Centre last January, and it's grown from there! West Wickham are much newer to us, and we ve ...
- Created on 22 December 2014
- 31. Soham Museum
- (Jigsaw Groups)
- ... bs Archaeology Group to ensure we deliver the most comprehensive archaeology project we can. We would love to hear from anyone who might like to volunteer their back garden for a dig, or equally get invol ...
- Created on 06 March 2014
- 32. Prehistoric and Roman Pot Guides
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- ... This is based on a course we ran in early 2013. Both guides cover the most common pottery types from each period in Cambridgeshire. They do not cover all pottery types found for each period, or in any ...
- Created on 11 December 2013
- 33. Training programme 2014 questionnaire
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- ... t run all of the course suggestions listed so we need your input to discover which courses are the most popular and useful. ...
- Created on 07 November 2013
- 34. Volunteering for Jigsaw
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- One of our volunteers, Rog, comes in most Tuesdays to help us with practical Jigsaw admin. Today he was creating some more 'washing line' tapes for magnetometry surveys (see picture). If you would lik ...
- Created on 16 July 2013
- 35. Upcoming courses
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- ... class-based course on old and new methods of landscape survey from conducting plane-table survey through to using a theodolite. We have quite a few spaces on this one: do come and make the most of Nick ...
- Created on 07 May 2013
- 36. Devils Dyke Guided Walk
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- Cambridgeshire Archaeology will be holding a guided walk along the famous Devils Dyke on Wednesday 8th May at 7pm meeting at the Burwell Road Car Park. The Devils Dyke is the most prominent ancient ...
- Created on 26 April 2013
- 37. Cambridgeshire Archaeology Events Programme
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- ... for the public, mostly guided walks. This has been going for many years, before Jigsaw! This year's Events Programme can be found here. The next event is a guided walk at Landbeach and Wort's Meadow ...
- Created on 22 April 2013
- 38. Successful first two courses
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- ... d most importantly, what I'm looking for (and at). Quite amazing." "Thanks for a well organised and informative day. Well done you!" ...
- Created on 11 February 2013
- 39. Covington History Group
- (Jigsaw Groups)
- ... t quantity of Ipswich ware amongst the Saxon finds. Most of the pottery sherds found are small and we are yet to find a complete vessel of any period - perhaps more due to extensive cultivation of the si ...
- Created on 22 February 2012
- 40. Meet the Team
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- ... Sally Croft - Senior Archaeologist, Cambridgeshire HER I manage the Cambridgeshire Historic Environment Record (CHER), the most comprehensive source of information on archaeological sites and finds ...
- Created on 05 September 2011