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Archaeology Training Dig 2022

Thu 26 May 2022

Students on the Certificate and Diploma in Archaeology at The Department experience excavation techniques as part of their course.

Revealing the Hallstatt Collection at the Ashmolean Museum

Wed 12 May 2021

Dr Jennifer Foster, archaeologist and Departmental tutor, is working with the Ashmolean Museum to publish artifacts found at an epic early Iron Age site at Hallstatt in Austria.

The Archaeology of East Oxford: free book available for download

Fri 30 Oct 2020

‘The Archaeology of East Oxford’, a new book which explores the fascinating history of East Oxford, is now published online and free to download from the ADS (Archaeology Data Service)

New book, ‘Barbaric Splendour’ available for download

Thu 30 Jul 2020

A new book, Barbaric Splendour: The use of image before and after Rome, explores and compares art of the Iron Age and Early Medieval period.

Detectorists Win National Archaeology Training Award

Sat 14 Sep 2019

In April 2019, the course 'Metal Detecting for Archaeological Projects: An Introduction' won the Archaeology Training Forum Award

Citizen Scientists Needed for ‘Beacons of the Past’

Sat 14 Sep 2019

Help wanted to identify new archaeological features in the Chilterns ‘Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty’ (AONB)

Orkney - an archaeologist's paradise

Thu 11 Jul 2019

Unearthing Orkney's Viking past: a real insight into one of the first places the Vikings settled in the UK

Recreating the 'Soul Houses' of Ancient Egypt

Thu 29 Jun 2017

Students Christine Blanks and Sara Harman undertook a project to replicate Ancient Egyptian funerary objects, known as 'Soul Houses'

Online hillforts atlas maps all 4,147 in Britain and Ireland for the first time

Wed 28 Jun 2017

An award-winning online atlas captures hillfort locations and key details in one resource

Where the bodies are buried

Thu 13 Apr 2017

A works project in the summer of 1994 in Rewley House's Acland Garden unearthed some unexpected surprises.

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Archaeology Training Dig 2022

Revealing the Hallstatt Collection at the Ashmolean Museum

The Archaeology of East Oxford: free book available for download

New book, ‘Barbaric Splendour’ available for download

Detectorists Win National Archaeology Training Award

Citizen Scientists Needed for ‘Beacons of the Past’

Orkney - an archaeologist's paradise

Recreating the 'Soul Houses' of Ancient Egypt

Online hillforts atlas maps all 4,147 in Britain and Ireland for the first time

Where the bodies are buried

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