A great #archwilts18 conference. Thanks to all the speakers and all those who made the day work. See you in 2019 and at the WW1 conference on 1 December!
Final talk - Richard Osgood about Saxon burials at Barrow Clump with Operation Nightingale. Including burial with a beautiful stamped pot and furthest South-West cremation. Site has first Visigothic brooch found in a burial in Britain. Open Day on site on 14 July. #archwilts18
Great to hear about the AFG excavation of a water shrine close to Bromham / Rowde from Jan Dando and Phil Andrews of @wessexarch . More work later in the summer! #archwilts18
Bob Clarke from @wessexarch Wessex Archaeology talking about a defensive site dating to just after the Civil War site at Longhedge, just outside Salisbury. #archwilts18
Also a Bronze Age burial with a fabulous Beaker! RT @WiltshireMuseum: Evidence of false oat grass, sloes and crab apples in Bronze Age cremation from Rowden Park, Chippenham. Katie Marsden (Cotswold Archaeology) and Tony Brown (now CgMs). #archwilts18
Evidence of false oat grass, sloes and crab apples in Bronze Age cremation from Rowden Park, Chippenham. Oat grass to start fire in pyre, food as offerings? Katie Marsden (Cotswold Archaeology) and Tony Brown (now CgMs). #archwilts18
Nearly out of battery so you may have to check @WiltshireMuseum for tweets from the end of #archwilts18!
Next Tony and Katy talking about Iron Age/Roman excavation results from Rowden Park #Chippenham @CotswoldArch #archwilts18
Really interesting evidence coming from the butchery marks on pig bone from #Marden henge @HE_Archaeology @FayWorley #archwilts18
What an amazing excavation by @ACarchaeology finding massive structural evidence outside the present Devizes castle wall #archwilts18
After lunch! Peter Cox from @ACarchaeology "Devizes Castle, An Insight Into Its Dedencs" #archwilts18
But that's ok because their 500+ sherds of Roman pottery are important additions to mere c65 previously found in Chippenham #archwilts18
Now we're going to hear from Clive Green "Seeking Saxon Chippenham" #archwilts18 cc @ChippMuseum
Next Jon Sanigar with a quick-fire presentation on mapping some Civil War sites in #Wiltshire #archwilts18
Gopher Wood above Huish. Nice data visualisations of ground cover variability over earthworks by Graham Bathe #archwilts18
Amazing Tudor water supply including conduit and big header tank at Bedwyn Brails! #archwilts18
We're off to Bedwyn Brails and the Duke of Somerset's C16 property. Where was his house? #archwilts18
Next up Graham Bathe "Botanical pointers in woodland archaeology" #archwilts18
Steve Marshall's soundscapes wake us up to the whole sensory experience of being in a place and event thousands of years ago #archwilts18
Fascinating response by Steve Marshall to @StoneAveWHS making electronic music cc @Coralfrog #archwilts18
Soundscapes @AveburyNT by binaural recording incorporating site-specific sounds. Play at home or listen to in the monument #archwilts18
We're going to hear from Steve Marshall next, soundscapes @AveburyNT #archwilts18
Holy Trinity Bradford on Avon @wessexarch discovered important Saxon-Norman inhumations #archwilts18
Holy Trinity Bradford on Avon C18 vaults can be tied to documentary evidence. Name plates, coffins, fittings @SarahHoile #archwilts18
Next up Kirsten Dinwiddy from @wessexarch talking about a cemetery in Bradford on Avon #archwilts18
Check out the @HeritageWSHC #archaeology walks this Summer #archwilts18
Bronze Age Swindon, Roman Melksham and Purton, Iron Age Eysey and Wroughton #archwilts18 Great roundup @HeritageWSHC!
Busy morning at the #archwilts18 conference!
There's been 75 fieldwork projects in #Wiltshire this past year and many were community/research led #archwilts18
First a round up of #archaeology in the county over the past year from the County Archaeologist @HeritageWSHC #archwilts18