Author Archives: Ruiha Smalley

February school holidays event at Shorne Woods

The next SWAG school holidays event is going to be on Thursday 15th February 2024, from 10-3pm. It will be held inside the cafe building at the Park. Activities include coin rubbing, Roman mosaic making and fossil identification (bring yours … Continue reading

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AGM minutes

Our first formal AGM was held in December, to coincide with the Christmas lunch. Please click here to access the minutes for the SWAG 2023 AGM.

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Greenwich Grand Ascent

The current project at Greenwich has been the investigation of the Grand Ascent, the slope below the General Wolfe statue. A consistent clay layer under the topsoil was found across the whole Ascent and believed to be Victorian in date. Where … Continue reading

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The Shorne Woods archaeology programme

There is now a video available about the Lower Thames Crossing and in it Andrew gives a brief run down of the archaeology of the park and our current situation. It also features the platform dig from this Autumn :

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Knights Hospitaller at St John’s Jerusalem

During October volunteers from SWAG joined the Darent Valley Landscape Partnership Scheme and the National Trust in an excavation at the moated house of St John’s Jerusalem in Sutton-at Hone. For more detail on the dig click through to The … Continue reading

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