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A whirlwind of open days and exciting archaeology!

What an amazing few days we’ve had here in Lyminge! We’ve been incredibly busy so this time I have turned two blog posts into one to get you caught up on the whirlwind of activity that has been the Lyminge … Continue reading

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Fascinating features

Digging has been progressing well here at Lyminge, with some of our hunches being proved through excavation, and others turning out to be quite different although still just as fascinating. As you can see the trench is filled with volunteers … Continue reading

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Join us on our Open Day this Saturday!

 

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Finds and other fun

As promised, a blog post about some of the finds that have been coming up over the past two and a bit weeks, but also some of the other things that have been going on! We’ve had a whole range … Continue reading

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…and the digging begins!

Lots and lots has been going on on the Lyminge dig in the past week! We’ve been extremely busy with a whole range of activities, and today we finally finished the last of the cleaning back and students and volunteers … Continue reading

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Day of Archaeology

Just a quick post to say that we took part in the ‘Day of Archaeology‘ today, a project that asks archaeologists from all over the world to blog about all the different things they do across the whole spectrum of … Continue reading

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An exciting first week

Welcome to the first in-the-field blog post of 2013! Last Thursday we began stripping the site by machine in anticipation of beginning bright and early on Monday morning. It was great to have the machining finished to be able to … Continue reading

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Lyminge 2013 approaches!

It seems that very suddenly, there is just under a week before the 2013 dig season begins! It it is very definitely a whole year since I started blogging about our excavations on Tayne Field – time has whistled by! … Continue reading

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Lyminge exhibition in the Parish Church – this week only!

On Friday Stuart Hunnisett and I set up our traveling exhibition  in the parish church of St Mary and St Ethelburga in Lyminge to coincide with the Lyminge Flower Festival. We set up our panels in the belfry, trying hard … Continue reading

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Lyminge 2012 Interim Report published and available to download!

We’re really pleased to announce that the interim report for the excavations that took place in the summer of 2012 on Tayne Field is now available for all to download on the Lyminge Archaeological project website. It is jam-packed full … Continue reading

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