🧙‍♂️ Using some web wizardry, ahead of our Chilmington Green Community Project's VE-Day showcase tomorrow, we have mapped the impact of WWII on the landscape of Chilmington on an interactive map!
chilmington-green.aocarchaeology.com/chilmington-... With thanks to Kent CC and Hodson Developments

These pay initiatives complement our extensive condition package that range from company mobile phones to support for conference attendance and 100% CIfA
@InstituteArch
membership. Come join our growing team! #CareerOpportunities #archaeology #graduate #heritage

This week, we are announcing an above inflation rate pay increase of 5.1% for all our 170 staff! This follows on from a profit-share bonus given to staff at Christmas.

Photo of a Black woman with braids using a trowel and brush to excavate an archaeological trench

Little is known about the Horndean medieval settlement in the Borders, but is that about to change? 🤔

@aocarchaeology.bsky.social is looking for features and dating evidence this month and they need your help - join the free excavation (no experience required): www.digitscotland.com/events/hornd...

Excavation at Horndean Deserted Medieval Settlement Join the UtT team for an excavation at the deserted medieval settlement at Horndean.

Join @aocarchaeology.bsky.social at the exciting excavation of a deserted medieval settlement at Horndean, part of our Uncovering the Tweed project⚒️Get in quick if you’re interested as spaces are limited! #Archaeology #excavation #rivertweed
www.eventbrite.com/e/excavation...

We were visited by the children of Ballogie Nursery, who learnt about shoemaking, and made our conservators a homemade thank you card!
Want to discover more on the Ballogie Souter’s Workshop? Visit the website of the funders of this project, the Birse Community Trust website: tinyurl.com/birsesout

AOC conservators have been assessing objects left untouched since the death of James Merchant, Scottish cobbler, in 1941. Items left in his souter’s workshop include top hats in metal tins and shoebuffs with radium treated fabric! 🎩✨

This project was made possible by funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund Scotland, Fallago Environment Fund and other funders. #stoneage #stoneagetools #archaeology

Volunteers were learning about lithics with Kristian Pedersen this month as part of Uncovering the Tweed @DestTweedUK. Cataloguing the lithics found in the fields around Paxton, they found several nice platform cores and a thumbnail scraper were the stand out finds of the day!
#destinationtweeduk

...and where else in history we're going next with the project! Open to all, 10-5pm. For more details visit: tinyurl.com/SEC2526
With thanks to Kent County Council and Hodson Developments
#SpringEvents #HeritageDay #HistoryMatters #CulturalHeritage t #HandsOnHistory #CommunityEvent

Come to our FREE archaeology pop-up event at the 🌱Singleton Environment Centre☘️, in Singleton, Kent on Saturday the 26th of April, and discover what #AOC and the Chilmington Archaeology & History Research Group have found to unearth the history of ‘Chilmington in Wartime’

From the Palaeolithic period onwards, British peoples have had millennia to shape the land for farming, home life, and defence. Flint specialists, however, can date finds displaced by these processes by matching core dimensions to undisturbed blades found nearby!🏺✨
#Archaeology #FindsFriday

🔗https://chilmington-green.aocarchaeology.com/2025/04/04/chilmington-at-peace-1911-status-quo-ante-bellum/

Become a volunteer researcher for the Chilmington Green Community Archaeology Project! 📚 Email chilmington@aocarchaeology.com.

Thanks to Hodsons Developments and
@Kent_cc

In 1914, the Friends of Great Chart (Kent) created this 'Roll of Honour' for its soldiers. Steven Bartlett's genealogical investigation explores the lives of these Chilmington families in 1911, before tragedy struck 👇
#WWI #FirstWorldWar #Kent #AshfordKent #Chilmington #LocalHistory #HistoryLovers

#FindsFriday flint again! Thumbnail scrapers such as this are characteristic of the early Bronze Age, often found alongside Beaker pottery🏺✨
#Archaeology #BronzeAge

These finds were likely stashed away by the Bomb Disposal Services personnel who were billeted at Singleton Manor in WWII. Read more about our project here: chilmington-green.aocarchaeology.com
With Thanks to Hodson Developments

🍊 Ye shall know them by their fruit! 🍐
What can we tell about the everyday life of soldiers from WWII from these items they stashed away in the floorboards of Singleton Manor brought in by our intrepid Chilmington researchers last week?
#ashfordkent #kent #history #WWII #wwıı #Archaeology

A fantastic experience to engage with students at various stages of their academic careers to discuss their career options, the fair serves as a platform to spark conversations about fieldwork and diverse aspects of archaeology, and facilitate valuable networking opportunities for students! 👩‍🎓

Last week, AOC Archaeology participated in University of Edinburgh Fieldwork Fair, organised by the 👩‍🎓 Edinburgh University #Archaeology Society. This marked the third consecutive year that AOC has participated in this event, which was attended by one of our fieldwork project supervisors!

A ha-ha was a popular earthwork in the 18th century, built to provide a seamless view of rolling lawns, and this week AOC staff and volunteers teamed up with @habsandheritage.bsky.social‬ to clean up, properly date, and assess damage to a ha-ha wall at Kew Gardens! 🌴🌳 #localhistory #community

An Express Dairy's 1950s 1/3 pint milk bottle! 🥛It may have escaped from a local school's milk delivery, a key part of the Education Act 1944 in ensuring free milk was provided to all primary school children even during nationwide rationing #londonhistory #SecretLondon #historicbuildingconservation

🔍 #FindsFriday kicks off our 5-part series on... flint! This year, AOC #Archaeology assessed 7,500 individual flints. But where did they come from? Over the next few weeks, we’ll uncover their surprising findspots and long afterlife. 🏺✨ #Archaeology

🔎 What was life like in Edwardian Chilmington?
🔎What can this small village tell us about the wider impact of WWI?
Discover their stories in Chilmington at Peace, 1911—part of our Chilmington at War research series soon on our project website: chilmington-green.aocarchaeology.com

But was that really the case?
Genealogical researcher Steven Bartlett delves into the 1911 Census to uncover the lives of farmers, brickmakers, and servants—ordinary people whose worlds would soon be upended by war. Some never returned. Others came back forever changed.

Before the headlines of 1914 declared "Britain in a State of War," life in the rural hamlet of Chilmington Green seemed peaceful, predictable—a place where "everyone knew their proper place." 🏡🚜

Photo: RCAF at RAF Ashford, 1943, © collection of Squadron Leader Jones (d. 1943) c/o Esther Jones

Exciting find! We’re sharing some never-before-seen #WWII photos on our Chilmington Community Project website. Stay tuned for a glimpse into the wartime history of #Kent!!

With thanks to Kent County Council and Hodson Developments for their generous funding.

Volunteers were recording a recently discovered #graffito (possibly from WWII) in the porch of St Mary’s Great Chart for our #Chilmington Community Project this week. This recent discovery is yet another addition to the church’s almost 1000 years of #history!

3D render reconstruction of the former Cranford House

(the former Cranford House reconstructed here in 3D)

(the former Cranford House reconstructed here in 3D)

“Friends, Romans, Country House: lend me your labour!”: the LAMAS lecture given by AOC’s Les Capon on the preliminary results of the #community excavations at Cranford Park #Hillingdon is now up on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg0R....

1640s Vaulted Cellar of Poynters Hall Totteridge - 3D model by AOC Archaeology Group (@aocarchaeology) In November 2024, AOC excavated the remains of the now-demolished Poynters Hall, also known as Poynters Grove, Totteridge. The property was once in the ownership of Royalist Sir Richard Gurney, Lord M...

View our 3D model of the cellars AOC uncovered in 2024 now at: sketchfab.com/3d-models/16...