Monday, 9 March 2020

'A Digger's Life: a load of rubbish'


The monthly meeting of the group saw Chris Tripp talk about how he got into archaeology and some of the sites he has dug over the last 30 years. From Bronze Age trackways, Roman warehouses and Iron Age settlements to Anglo-Saxon graves and Medieval cess pits. David Northam also talked through the possible project at Tumbledown Farm.
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