The Prehistory of Street House Street House, in North East Yorkshire is remarkable for the wealth of prehistoric deposits that have been excavated in the last ten years. Starting with a Neolithic salt making site and associated settlement, excavations in the last two years have now revealed further Late Neolithic- Early Bronze Age ceremonial sites…
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Initial results from the A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet Excavations. Between July 2022 and June 2024, MOLA undertook excavations ahead of the construction of the A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet Improvement Scheme. The sites revealed information about how Iron Age pioneers ventured into the claylands of Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to expand their settlements,
General Roundup and Further Work. Many of you have been involved in our recent excavations at both of these Roman period farmsteads. Derek will provide us with a round-up of the work we have completed so far at these sites and what we have learnt about them. He will also give us an insight into
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Military architecture through the years A Talk by Jeff Hawley Alconbury Airfield’s history spans from its 1938 founding as a British Royal Air Force (RAF) satellite base through World War II and the Cold War, ending its operational life in the mid-1990s after decades of continuous American occupation. Once a strategic site for reconnaissance and