Digging Opportunities

Background to the dig: Over the past few years through geophysics and excavation we have discovered the extensive remains of a medieval manor at Guting Power in the Cotswolds.  Dating from the post Norman Conquest period we have located the remains of a large manor house with associated buildings arranged in a courtyard.  The walls are very substantial and the building probably  started life as a defended medieval tower and has been modified over time.  The site has remained open over the Winter so we are ready to start on new archaeology straight away.

 

The 2025 excavation: The focus of the 2025 excavation will be to work on the Northern range of the building to see what type of buildings sit there.  We have some substantial walls running towards this wing from our main building so they may be connected.  Moreover, the archaeology is shallow here as witnessed by the evaluation trenches.

 

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.

 

The end of the 2024 season 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:

 

2025 session 2 dates

 

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