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The Fen Edge Archaeology Group is currently exploring a Romano-British settlement site just north of Cottenham. We have places left for a visit to the Twenty Pence Site on Saturday, 13th July 2013 at 10:00 am.  

A minibus will pick visitors up from All Saints Church car park in Cottenham and return there about an hour later. Parking is not available for visitors at the site.

If you would like to attend, please email feaginfo@gmail.com with your name(s) and a contact telephone number. Please note that this is a rural farm site and the visit involves walking across two fields, so sensible shoes and weather-appropriate clothing will be called for. The farm has dogs who are sometimes interested in the dig.

For more information about FEAG and the Twenty Pence project, see our website here.

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The third season of FEAG fieldwork, as part of its Twenty Pence Project on a Romano-British settlement on the edge of the fens just north of Cottenham, will take place each day from Saturday 6th July to Saturday 20th July.


The project is being conducted by FEAG in association with the Cambridge Antiquarian Society and if you might like to be involved please look at the FEAG website at www.feag.co.uk. You will there find details of how to register an interest via a dedicated email address.

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Jo and Jemima were trained in geophysical magnetometry survey using our FM256 Fluxgate Gradiometer by Peter Masters of Cranfield University today. It's more complicated than resistivity! We spent a long time learning how to set up the machine so it had the same nanotesla (nT) reading N-S and E-W. The actual survey is relatively straightforward - just like for the resistivity RM85 but quicker because there aren't any probes to insert in and out of the ground.

We are running two Magnetometry courses this summer, and still have a few spaces on our second course on Saturday 20th July 2-5pm at Wicken Fen. You will need to have completed a course in Resistivity before attending this course. Booking through the website as usual.

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We had a very informative course on 'Theory of Geophysical Survey' by Peter Masters of Cranfield University last night, which uncovered some of the mysteries of geophysical survey. We learnt the basics of how magnetometry and resistivity work, and learnt how to interpret some of the results. We hope it will prove useful to groups, particularly as many people will be trained in resistivity and magnetometry and how to process data using Snuffler this summer, and will be conducting their own projects using Jigsaw equipment.

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Sorry to announce that we have had to cancel tonight's course on 'Theory and Methods of Landscape Survey' due to speaker illness. We are trying to notify all those who booked. Sorry for the short notice. We will try to reschedule the course for some date in the future - we will keep you informed.

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