An introduction to Heritage Burial Services Heritage Burial Services (HBS) is a specialist group of human osteoarchaeologists who work to conserve the burial record and promote the value of the scientific study of human remains.
An introduction to Heritage Burial Services Heritage Burial Services (HBS) is a specialist group of human osteoarchaeologists who work to conserve the burial record and promote the value of the scientific study of human remains.
December's #OAat50 highlights Beheaded Vikings, a beautiful former abbey in Cheshire and a rare Neolithic monument in Essex
Update 1: Work has begun The first days are usually slow, but not for this team! Did someone say SFB?
Update 3: Teamwork We enjoy the simple things on site each day: a good cup of tea and biscuits…a lot of biscuits!
Update 2: Why are you here? When we’re on site, we quite often get asked the question “why have you decided to dig here?”
Update 5: A day in the life of… To give you a feel of what it's really like to be an archaeologist, we've invited Laura to give us an insight into her daily life.
An introduction to Heritage Burial Services Heritage Burial Services (HBS) is a specialist group of human osteoarchaeologists who work to conserve the burial record and promote the value of the scientific study of human remains.
An introduction to Heritage Burial Services Heritage Burial Services (HBS) is a specialist group of human osteoarchaeologists who work to conserve the burial record and promote the value of the scientific study of human remains.
December's #OAat50 highlights Beheaded Vikings, a beautiful former abbey in Cheshire and a rare Neolithic monument in Essex
Update 1: Work has begun The first days are usually slow, but not for this team! Did someone say SFB?
Update 3: Teamwork We enjoy the simple things on site each day: a good cup of tea and biscuits…a lot of biscuits!
Update 2: Why are you here? When we’re on site, we quite often get asked the question “why have you decided to dig here?”
Update 5: A day in the life of… To give you a feel of what it's really like to be an archaeologist, we've invited Laura to give us an insight into her daily life.
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Abbot's Vale Update 13: Roundup After an impressive 24 weeks and some 8.4ha of archaeology uncovered, our time on site is finally coming to a close. But really, the work has only just begun!
Uffington White Horse Surrounded by the traces of people that came before and after the chalk figure, the White Horse owes its survival to the local communities who have regularly been maintaining it over perhaps a hundred generations.
It's not all about digging... There's a lot more to archaeology than digging...This blog showcases the work OA specialists do to ensure our heritage is understood and preserved for future generations.
#OAat50 Highlights April's #OAat50 highlights With our April highlights we travelled to Corby, Dacre, the Uffington White Horse and then across to France to the site of the Battle of Fromelles.
Hinxton In the Pits - Coming to the End of our Excavation At the end of March 2023, waterlogged and weary, but triumphal, the team concluded our excavations at Hinxton with a flurry of interesting finds at the heart of the site.
#OAat50 Highlights March's #OAat50 highlights March highlights took us all the way to the Mesolithic with the first confirmed cremation from the period , then to Heathrow T5 and Stansted.
#OAat50 Highlights February's #OAat50 highlights In February, we celebrated World Wetlands Day with one of OA North's historic projects, the North West Wetlands Survey and looked at an egg-cellent find from Roman Buckinghamshire.