Bournemouth University Department of Archaeology & Anthropology

08/10/2025

12/06/2025

Given the updated weather notices, with warnings of thunderstorms and flash flooding, we have taken the decision to CANCEL work on the big dig site today (Thursday 12 June). Apologies. Normal service will be resumed tomorrow 👋

11/06/2025

05/06/2025

Given the updated weather notices we have taken the decision to CANCEL work on the big dig site today (Thursday 5 June). Apologies. Normal service will be resumed tomorrow 👋

03/06/2025

Day one on site with the dig team

A quick fly-by, courtesy of Jo and Sue Crane, shows the area under investigation this year and the archaeological features prior to cleaning 🤩

30/05/2025

This linear feature runs the whole length of the newly excavated trench at

Really (really) hoping it's an Iron Age ditch 🤞

28/05/2025

The face and head of an Iron Age woman whose remains were discovered in Dorset’s Kimmeridge Bay 25 years ago have been reconstructed by an MSc Bioarchaeolog ...

11/04/2025