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Tag Archives: shorne woods country park
Brick production in the Park
This week we were very fortunate to have a site visit from David Cufley, an expert on brick production in the south-east. He has confirmed that the site is probably Victorian in date. This ties in nicely with a Victorian … Continue reading
Halloween event
Another successful SWAG public engagement day. Almost three hundred children and adults joined us for a Halloween themed excavation at Shorne Woods Country Park. The children enthusiastically excavated the notorious ‘bone pit’ and made up over a hundred Witch Bottles … Continue reading
New excavation at the Park
Early in October we began to excavate the tile dump at the north eastern corner of Shorne Park. The mound was noted as an anomaly on the parks LiDAR chart and we ground-truthed it earlier in the year. We found … Continue reading
Farewell to the ‘Plateau’
We are now in the process of backfilling the second building and simultaneously we will be cleaning the excavation of building three followed by recording, photographing andthen backfilling. This will bring an end to over three and a half years … Continue reading