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So how does our highly skilled illustrator more used to using an array of technology (light-box for back-illuminating objects, images, x-rays, etc.) do the same work at home? As part of an archaeological report, amongst all the other detailed records collected are photographs and sketches of objects as they were found in place. So, what...

An unusual find from the Worcester Porcelain factory where you would normally think of richly decorated find pottery such as in January’s find of the month, but it tells an interesting WWII story of how a small component made a big difference in our lives. Our archaeologists were working on a site by The Royal...

  Now in it’s fifth year, our trainee scheme is well established. Martina, Chris and Roland joined our archaeology team in early March 2020 – ideal timing to gain experience on our busy programme of fieldwork projects. Err… or not, as it turned out. Yep, you’ve guessed it: a global pandemic and national lockdown was...

Today we look at a lockdown day in the life of our Finds Supervisor, Rob Hedge on 16th April 2020 Today, I’m looking at some intriguing pottery from an excavation by Wessex Archaeology North. I’ve been asked to write an assessment. This is a basic quantification of different types of pottery: what type of vessels are...

During archaeological excavations (or even walking around footpaths between fields) around Worcester, it is not uncommon to find bits of clay pipes.  Used by men and women while working the pipe stems often broke as they were held in the owner’s teeth and while they were readily available from shops they were also sold in...

We’re proud to welcome our newest team member – a highly specialised archaeologist helping us meet the challenges of both the current climate and a particular site. Signs of an Iron Age settlement have recently been found during an excavation on the edge of Worcestershire.  Alongside a boundary ditch was a large cluster of storage...

The new Archive Card reader’s ticket has now been launched and we will be issuing them at WAAS from next week, so head online to www.archivescard.com for more information and to sign up for yours today before you visit. For the last few years a new reader’s ticket scheme has been under development by the...

Worcestershire Archaeological Society (WAS) has received a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant of £62,700 for an exciting county-wide archaeology project – Small Pits, Big Ideas II. Made possible by money raised from National Lottery players, the project will enable six rural communities across Worcestershire to explore the origins of their settlements and contribute to academic...

A lump of rusty old iron – nothing to write home about, or is it? Unlike copper and bronze, iron quickly rusts and easily distorts beyond recognition. With the recent discovery of Iron Age ironwork at a site south of Worcester, we thought it was time to explore the tricky topic of identifying iron artefacts....

Our Find of the Month is a Roman pot with a chequered past, discovered at Ruardean Hill in the Forest of Dean during a recent Foresters’ Forest community excavation. We were investigating a rectangular earthwork which had been identified using LiDAR. It’s one of 1700 potential archaeological sites being investigated over the 5 year course...