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In issue 126 of CIfA's 'The Archaeologist' magazine, there's a brilliant article covering our non-invasive survey techniques at Bleakmoor Hill - where we combined geophysical, ALS and multispectral survey and geochemical surveys to better understand the site.

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JAM - Jarrow Hall Jarrow Archaeological Mission Find all of our JAM updates here, from our weekly JAMCam blogs, mission events and photos relating to the dig. The story so far In May 2025 Groundwork South & North Tynes...

Everything has been blogged about on their website too, and although the digging has finished for now, everyone is excited to get the post-excavation work underway!

Want to know more? Check out their website: jarrowhall.com/jam/

So far, four weeks of excavations in Drewett Park have taken place and it’s been a wonderful endeavour, involving a collaboration of local community groups, residents, students, Route2Work learners and volunteers.

The JAM Project was a recipient of the National Lottery Heritage Fund earlier this year and it opened the way for new archaeological investigations close to the site of St Paul's Church and Jarrow Monastery in Jarrow for the first time since the 1960s.

We’ve been helping out with the fantastic Jarrow Archaeological Mission (JAM) Project recently, the Phase 1 excavation of which draws to a close this week.

An Early Iron Age palisaded enclosure in a multi-phase setting: excavations at Bleakmoor Hill The dating of palisaded enclosures in Britain remains poorly understood with few sites having been directly dated by scientific means using suitable, reliable samples. Excavations to support a poss...

For more information on the publication of the previous excavations see here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Aerial Archaeology Research Group 2024 Annual Meeting The AARG Committee is thrilled to announce the 41st AARG meeting will be held on the 12th and 13th of September 2024 in York, United Kingdom followed by a field visit on 14th September 2024. Before th...

For more information on the Conference see here: aargonline.com/wp/events/aa...

New high-res Lidar & multispectral surveys together with geochemical & magnetic susceptibility surveys were then undertaken in 2025. Together with evidence from ongoing adjacent excavations, new evidence is shedding light on a fascinating multi-phase site – we hope to report more on this in future!

We conducted a phased programme of works to understand the form, phasing and date of the archaeological remains of the enclosure together with information on the condition of preservation.

Bleakmoor Hill is a hilltop on the outermost margin of the Cheviot Hills in Northumberland. Atop it sits the Scheduled Monument ‘Bleakmoor Hill Palisaded Enclosure’ which is the site of a small, defended site of domestic function dating to 550-440 BC in the Early Iron Age.

We were in attendance at the 42nd Aerial Archaeology Research Group Conference in Trondheim recently. Our Head of Specialist Services, Kim, was there to present on our non-invasive research at the Bleakmoor Hill Palisaded Enclosure next to Harden Quarry.

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One of our team will also be there today and Friday 19th September, 10am-1pm, so pop along to chat to us about all things archaeology and history, and to see some of our finds. We look forward to seeing you!

As part of England's largest festival of history and culture, Heritage Open Days 2025, we have a stand upstairs at Bakewell Visitor Centre all this week (15th-19th September) with information and displays of some of our project work in the area.

Do you have a community archaeology project in the UK?

A reminder that the Community Archaeology Radiocarbon Dating (CARD) Fund is still accepting applications for 2025's round of funding!

The deadline is 30 November, so now is a great time to apply.
Learn more here: www.cardfund.org

We recently completed an excavation with Breedon in North Yorkshire that turned up some very exciting and rare discoveries. These included an upside-down pottery vessel known as a ‘collared urn’ & a perforated stone axe hammer!

Learn more here: archaeologicalresearchservices.com/exciting-and...

Holme Hall Quarry in the July issue of 'Current Archaeology' - Archaeological Research Services Ltd [...]Read More...

But was this development the work of local Iron Age communities, or could it have been a land-grab by an occupying army?

Read more on our website here: archaeologicalresearchservices.com/holme-hall-q...

Discussing the early Roman frontier region prior to the advance northwards to the Hadrianic frontier, the piece reveals how the landscape in this area was transformed into extensive, carefully planned field systems and farmsteads during the early Roman period.

In some exciting news, our work at Holme Hall Quarry for Breedon Group, is now available to read about in the July issue of @currentarchaeology.bsky.social magazine, issue 424!

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We know this acorn comes from a peat layer close to a previously dated layer around 6000 BC – making it over 8000 years old.

Imagine holding 8000 years of history in your hand!

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The presence of an acorn in the sample indicates that oak trees were present nearby when the peat was forming. By taking a sample of this acorn and radiocarbon dating it, we can obtain a precise date for when the acorn was alive, giving us a date for the deposition of the peat around it.

Finding a perfectly preserved acorn hidden in a peat deposit is surely at the top of every geoarchaeologist’s bucket list, and that’s exactly what our geoarchaeologist found last week!

This ancient acorn was found in a peat core sample for dateable organic material from the Northumberland Cheviots.

Want to know more? Please get in touch today to see how we can help prospect your site with a rapid, low-risk, low-cost survey: archaeologicalresearchservices.com/about-us/con...

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The best part is that this survey can be done quickly and at low cost, without any damage to crops or vegetation. It's the perfect time to get this done, as the dry conditions will maximise the ability for the detection of buried remains. If you need to evaluate a site pre-application, then act now.

Seeing a much greater range of the spectrum than a normal camera, our system detects subsurface features through the effect they have on crop ripening or parching, and the retention of heat at different levels in relation to their surroundings, resulting in stunning imagery of buried archaeology.

Did you know summer's a great time to discover hidden archaeology?

With the dry weather, we’re having a bumper year for cropmarks and our market-leading and unique multispectral and thermal camera – mounted on a UAV – is the perfect tool for rapid detection of buried archaeological remains.

Summer is here and we're thrilled to be back once more at the Bakewell Country Festival!

Come and join us on Sunday 13 July 2025, 9:30am-5pm, at the Bakewell Showground for lots of fun family activities.

Find out more here: www.bakewellahs.co.uk/bakewell-cou...

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DIG2025 "Developing International Geoarchaeology," or simply "DIG," is a biennial conference series that began in 2005 and has since been hosted across the world. It aims to bring together a wide variety of i...

It was fantastic to showcase how the company is helping lead the charge when it comes to applying geoarchaeological methods in commercial archaeology in the UK.

For more information about the conference, head to: sites.google.com/view/dig2025...

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