Digging Opportunities

We are returning to the Roman site at Slimbridge, Gloucestershire that we have been working on for the past few years as part of the Slimbridge Archaeological Landscape Project.  The site has been covered with temporary covers over the Winter months so we can pick up from where we left off at the end of last season.  Those that were with us then will remember that we had uncovered a large bath house suite to the West of the aisled barn.  This is in association with a large villa building. During 2024 we will expand the trenches around the bath house to explore what remains of the main villa buildings.  Finds associated with the remains suggest a 1^st to 3^rd century villa within an exciting hitherto undiscovered Late Iron Age and Roman landscape.

We have had one session on this site earlier in the year and left it in a tantalising place with the discovery of an apse in the Roman bathhouse.  We will continue to explore the bath house and the 1st to 3rd century villa that is associated with it and also the large Roman warehouse built over the top of it in the later Roman period.

 The dates that we will be on this site are:

Sunday 18th to Thursday 22 August
Sunday 25th August
Tuesday 27th to Thursday 29th August
Sunday 01st  to Wednesday 04th September
Sunday 08th to Thursday 12th September

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Bookings for this dig are now open.  Please email your requested days to archeoscan@hotmail.co.uk

We are also working on bringing you some other exciting sites in the Cotswolds for 2024