10,000 Years of History - Past LBDAHS Digs & Finds

LBDAHS Archaeology Projects:

• Pond Meadow, Heath and Reach - Medieval  (Dug 2006/2007)
• Experiment Pot firing. Reconstruction of pots. School visits and Magnetometry survey at site. (2007)
• Stone Lane Quarry, Heath and Reach (Watching Brief: Iron age pottery, late Bronze age) (2006)
• Stone Age Hunter/Gatherer Encampment, Plantation Road - Mesolithic (10,000 years ago). (2007) 
• Earthworks investigation at Whipsnade (no origin identified) (2008)
• Test Pit Gig Lane, Heath and Reach Victorian pottery (2009)
• Excavation 27 Rothschild Road Post medieval pottery Possible site of navvies construction of nearby canal or railway. (2009)
• Bassett Road - (Test pits in Back garden site of Victorian clay pipe manufacturer, and air-raid shelter) (2012)
• Quern Stone, Leighton Buzzard Golf Course now on display (2012)
• Ascott Estate fieldwalking and finds (2013)
• Southcourt Stud Excavations, civil war finds. Terminal moraine of glacier (2013)
• Mystery of 700 blacking bottles, Heath Road, Victorian era (2014)
• Saxon Burials, Hockliffe: jewelry and other graves goods (2015)
• Incised stone from Saxon burial site circa 700 from Plantation Road (2008)
• Overend Green - Deserted Village - Medieval (site survey only) (2016)
• Goose Lodge Hockliffe, medieval village outskirts (2016)
• Bridge Street Excavation, medieval, looking for the Angel Inn
• Linslade Saxon burh topographical investigation (2014/15)
• St Mary the Virgin, Eaton Bray and the stone coffin (2017)
• Holy Well, Old Linslade – (Two digs) First (2018) Medieval & 17th Century Civil War remains. Second (2019 onwards) extensive evidence of Medieval occupation, plus even older finds

• LBDAHS Archaeology Team Participation:

• Boarstall Tower (near Bicester) members assist National Trust dig. (2008)
• Wing Heritage Digs, Wing (7-year community project) - Saxon 
• Manton Lane Roman Villa, Bedford (2014-15)
• Monks Risborough rescue dig, Anglo-Saxon finds (2013)
• Three Locks Pumphouse – Bucks Archaeology – Victorian (2017)