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Cate Davies

Sep 13

30 Years, 30 Sites: Tobacco Dock & Babe Ruth

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In continuation of our celebration of PCA’s remarkable 30-year journey, we are thrilled to unveil another of the curated selection of groundbreaking sites that have defined our legacy over the past three decades. 

This week, we present the unexpected discovery of a Roman bathhouse complex, the second largest found in London, along with a substantial late Romano-British settlement over a kilometre outside Londinium’s walls. Such is the significance of the bathhouse, it was preserved in situ beneath the new development.

Click here to find out more

Sep 06

CWR Open Day 2

By Central Winchester Regeneration, News No Comments

We had a fantastic turnout at our second open day at the Central Winchester Regeneration site. Visitors to the previous open day were eager to view our progress in Trench 1, and to see the dramatic, waterlogged Trench 3, which is now up-and-running with shoring and pumps. Our interactive activities in Abbey Gardens, such as the finds washing experience, were met with resounding enthusiasm, as evidenced by one young visitor who insisted, ‘No, Dad, I don’t want to go to the park; this is much better!’

Don’t worry if you missed it, there will be another on 7th October. In the meantime the site will be open between 8th-17th September from 12-2pm as part of Winchester Heritage Open Days.

 

Sep 06

Happy 30th Birthday PCA!

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Introducing ’30 Years, 30 Sites’

In honour of our 30th anniversary we’ll unveiling a curated portfolio of the most remarkable and groundbreaking sites PCA has undertaken over the last 30 years. 

Our journey through time begins with Tabard Square. Sometimes a single excavation can completely alter widely-held beliefs. At Tabard Square, our discovery of a major Roman temple complex transformed perceptions of Londinium’s ritual landscape and refined our understanding of Southwark’s prehistoric and Roman topography.

Sep 01

Feel the Magnetic pull of Archaeology at our Open Day!

By Central Winchester Regeneration, News, Outreach No Comments

Experience the thrill of discovery firsthand tomorrow at our Central Winchester Regeneration site Open Day – turn up anytime between 10am-4.30pm to see some of the artefacts revealed so far and tour the trenches. There will also be hands-on interactive activities for children in Abbey Gardens.

?️ Save the Date: Saturday 2 September

? Location: PCA gazebo in Abbey Gardens, Winchester

Aug 31

Hadrian’s Wall – Turret 3a

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Scott Vance spoke about our thrilling discovery of Turret 3a to a full house at the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, as one of their monthly members’ lectures.

Turret 3a is the first turret to be found in almost 40 years; excitingly this also means there may be more of the wall yet to be discovered in urban Tyneside.

Aug 29

CWR Volunteering

By Central Winchester Regeneration, News No Comments

Our volunteering days at the Central Winchester Regeneration site are proving very popular! 

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Sanjay (second from front) shared his positive and insightful experience on social media:

Having watched Time Team for years, I decided to do a day of volunteering yesterday Pre-Construct Archaeology Limited in Winchester. Three learnings.

? Something I had never done before. Had the usual fears that someone else would do it better. That was bollocks.

? Cleaning animal bones is very therapeutic. Pigs teeth are scary.

? Amazing to touch the very things people were eating, making and burning in the medieval age, just yards from our house. Humble lives in what is now a very expensive place.

Tony Robinson here I come

#learning #calm #focus #nofear

Sanjay Murthy

There are still a few places left if you’d like to help us piece together the past; book your place here: 

Aug 25

Winchester Heritage Open Days 2023

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As part of Winchester Heritage Open Days PCA will open the Central Winchester Regeneration site to the public between 12 noon and 2pm on weekdays for a talk/tour with poster displays and finds viewing.

When: 8th-17th September, 12-2pm

Where: Central Winchester Regeneration site, Winchester Bus Station yard, Busket Lane, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 9BA

Our investigation comprises four trenches in what was the bus station, in the north-eastern part of the historic core of Winchester. The trenches target a deep, well-preserved waterlogged archaeological sequence (demonstrated by geoarchaeological boreholes) and aim to inform development proposals for CWR that have yet to be drawn up. In fact, the archaeology will drive and inform the development proposals, and it is intended, longer term, to preserve as much of the archaeological sequence as possible. 

What we expect to find is evidence of the Roman, Anglo-Saxon, medieval and post-medieval town – a classic urban archaeological sequence. As the water table in this area is unusually high, around 1.6m BGL, the site has the added potential of exceptional preservation of organic artefacts and palaeoenvironmental material. Our work here has the potential to address a number of current objectives in research into all periods of the city’s past and is expected to last 4 months.

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