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Simplified excavation site plan [15]. In September 2015, the University of Cambridge's Cambridge Archaeological Unit began a dig, eventually covering 1,100 square metres (1,300 sq yd), the details of which were publicly disclosed in January 2016.
Covering an area of 18 hectares (44 acres), at the time it was the largest archaeological excavation in Europe, [2] and is the largest excavation ever undertaken in the British Isles. [3] Excavation continued year-round to stay ahead of gravel extraction that was rapidly destroying the site, accumulating an "astonishing" volume of material. [4]
Cambridge: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge University Press, 2001 Haidy Geismar and Anita Herle: Moving images. John Layard , fieldwork and photography on Malakula since 1914 , with contributions by Kirk Huffman and John Layard; Crawford House Publishing Australia, Adelaide in association with University of Cambridge Museum of ...
The skeletons, which came from a series of archaeological digs that began in the 1970s, date back to between 1000 and 1500. During that medieval era, Cambridge was home to a few thousand people.
It was just incredible,” said Chris Wakefield, an archaeologist with the Cambridge Archaeological Unit at the University of Cambridge, an archaeologist and member of the 55-person team that ...
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Iron fittings from the bed burial displayed in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge. The bed burial and three other Anglo-Saxon graves were discovered in summer 2011 as part of a series of archaeological excavations carried out by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit of the University of Cambridge in Trumpington Meadows, on the outskirts of the village of Trumpington, within ...
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