Geophys: Day 1
Our guest specialists from University of Southampton Kris Strutt and Dom Barker joined us on site yesterday to check some of their equipment before taking on small groups of students today. This...
View ArticleBooking for the Post-Excavation Taster Week is now open
Dates: 10th – 14th September 2023 Bookings are OPEN for a 1 week post-excavation taster. What is post-excavation? Archaeology is not all about digging. In order to turn the data gathered through...
View ArticleWeek 2 Round-Up and Return of the YACs
Week 2 was exceptionally busy! We made progress in some new areas, as well as getting an unexpected revelation about our well room. Finds and environmental processing continued, and we welcomed our...
View ArticleGeophys: Days 2 and 3
We are almost finished with the electrical resistivity survey of the green around the cricket pitch, and we have also begun magnetometry! Talking through some of the preliminary results has revealed...
View ArticleBook Now for our 2023 Post-Excavation Week!
Dates: 10th-14th September 2023 Bookings are OPEN for a 1 week post-excavation taster. What is post-excavation? Archaeology is not all about digging. In order to turn the data gathered through...
View ArticleWeek 3 Round-up (finally)
The last week of the season was a whirlwind! We had multiple specialists on site as well as representatives from various heritage and environmental institutional bodies, and we had to make sure...
View ArticleDirector’s End of Season Excavation Round-up
The focus of our work over the last three seasons has been the investigation of the outworks beyond St Oswald’s Gate and in particular the Tower of Elmund’s Well and our ongoing search to find what...
View ArticleExcavation Season 2024: Booking is open!
30th June – 26th July 2024 (4 weeks) Join us this summer for our 2024 excavation season at the world famous Bamburgh Castle. We will be continuing our excavation and survey on and around the outworks...
View ArticlePhotogrammetry Survey of Bamburgh Castle’s Medieval Outworks: St Oswald’s...
In early 2023 the BRP was awarded funding from the Castle Studies Trust to undertake a series of non-invasive surveys to provide additional context to the outworks of Bamburgh Castle, focussing on St...
View ArticlePost-Excavation Taster Weeks -Booking Now Open
Dates: May 20th to 24th and September 9th to 13th What is post-excavation? Archaeology is not all about digging. In order to turn the data gathered through excavations or surveys (for example) into...
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