Avebury Monuments Teacher’s Kit New school pack brings Avebury to life Wessex Archaeology has produced a new online Teacher’s Kit for Avebury World Heritage Site, commissioned by English Heritage. The new Teacher’s Kit is available online from today. It will soon be available on the English Heritage website. The Kit will help schoolchildren heading for Avebury and the surrounding monuments make the most [...]

Free publications - last few titles available Our offer of selected free publications has been extremely popular, and they have been rushing off the shelves. However, we do have five titles still available for free (+ £2.50 P&P to UK addresses only). Excavations in the Burghfield Area, Berkshire: Developments in the Bronze Age and Saxon Landscapes by C.A. Butterworth and S.J. Lobb Published 1992: Report [...]

Vacancies: Archaeological Computing Specialists Do you want to work in the exciting world of archaeology? The way archaeology works is changing. Computers are becoming an essential tool for archaeologists, and used for everything from databases, geographic analysis, 3D visualisation, and web publication. We are looking for people with these skills and more (see our archaeological computing specialists advert for a [...]

Evidence of Ice Age hunters found below North Sea An amazing collection of 28 flint hand-axes, dated by archaeologists to be around 100,000 years-old, have been unearthed in gravel from a licensed marine aggregate dredging area 13km off Great Yarmouth. The find was made by a Dutch amateur archaeologist, Jan Meulmeester, who regularly searches for mammoth bones and fossils in marine sand and gravel delivered [...]

Geophysical surveys from Wessex Archaeology Wessex Archaeology has been doing geophysical surveys in-house, mainly for Coastal and Marine projects but also terrestrial ones, since 2004. After being asked many times if this service could be made available more widely, we have decided to do just that. Lead by Paul Baggaley, we have a team of 6 expert geophysicists, and we are [...]

Free Archaeological Publications! Wessex Archaeology is pleased to offer many of its archaeological publications free (bar P+P) to the general public. This is offer is only available to those based in the UK. We have reports on our excavations undertaken over the last 20 years in Dorset, Berkshire, Hampshire and Wiltshire, which we would like to offer free to [...]

Training Dig 2008: Practical Archaeology Training Course For the last four years, Wessex Archaeology has run a series of very successful five day courses at Dr Martin Green’s farm on Cranborne Chase, “one of the most carefully studied areas in western Europe”. The Down Farm landscape includes parts of the Dorset Cursus and Ackling Dyke, Bronze Age barrows and Roman and Iron [...]

Wrecks on the Seabed: Ecology Ever wondered about the plants and animals that live on shipwrecks? What sorts of effects do these critters have on archaeological remains? Can the types of flora and fauna that chose to colonise a particular wreck tell us anything about the stability of the site, for example? These are some of the questions that Wessex Archaeology [...]

Vacancies: Archaeological Computing Specialists Wessex Archaeology is seeking to further expand its dynamic IT section through the appointment of archaeological computing specialists to fulfil a number of roles based at our Salisbury office. Applicants must have an active interest in computer applications within archaeology and related disciplines, and be prepared to work across a large number of varied projects. Find out [...]

Massive hoard of Bronze Age axes from Dorset The site of one of the largest hoards of Bronze Age axes ever found in Britain has been investigated by Wessex Archaeology. At a site on the Isle of Purbeck in south Dorset, metal detector users found hundreds of Bronze Age axes in late October and early November 2007. The axes, though not made of gold or [...]