Fifteen ancient skeletons have been discovered on an archaeological dig in Ipplepen, a major Romano-British settlement in Devon and now the best preserved Roman cemetery in the county.
University of Exeter archaeologists and a team of students and volunteers uncovered the human remains during an excavation of a Roman Road and found a roadside cemetery, the like of which has never been seen in the region. The significance of the discovery took on further importance when one of the skeletons was found to date from around 250 to 350 years after the Roman period, an era often referred...
Help Dartmoor National Park Archaeologists and Rangers look after prehistoric stone rows in a day of conservation work on Friday 27 February 2015.
Dartmoor’s landscape is among the richest in western Europe in terms of its archaeological remains. Dartmoor contains the longest stone row in the world and has the greatest number of archaeological sites out of all the UK National Parks. In fact 60% of all stone rows to be found in England are on Dartmoor.
All of this takes some looking after and we hope that you will find the time to help us. The work will involve clearing...
Meet members of RAMM’s conservation team who will be working on a variety of finds from Exeter’s Princesshay excavations and find out how they investigate and treat objects.
Free drop in, 10am-5pm daily.
Organised for the Council for British Archaeology Festival of Archaeology 2013.
