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Graeme Young
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Archaeologist Director of the Bamburgh Research Project and shockingly a bit of a lefty nerd
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Very happy to announce that the publication of our cemetery excavation is available for order. Do take a look at the link below

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Exciting News as the Monograph for the Bowl Hole Cemetery at Bamburgh is Published
The first large scale excavation that the Bamburgh Research Project undertook was on the Bowl Hole Burial Ground that the BRP had recently rediscovered the location for. It lay just 300m south of t…
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February 3, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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Booking for our dig in 2026 is now live! Check it out through our blog

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Want to come and excavate with us at Bamburgh? Booking for the 2026 excavation season is now open
19th July – 14th August 2026 (4 weeks) Join us this summer for our 2026 excavation season at the world famous Bamburgh Castle. We will be continuing our excavation and survey on and around the outw…
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November 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!

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November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Today was our final post-ex day, where we explored #osteoarchaeology.

We took a deep dive into the excavation of the early med. Bowl Hole cemetery, which sits just outside the castle.

This pm we were then joined by osteo, Giselle Kiraly, who taught us the basics of osteoarch.

A fascinating day!
Person stood with seated people at table with bones laid out on table top
September 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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This afternoon we continued our exploration of the early medieval period with Paula Constantine.
We had the opportunity to try different clothe making techniques and understand the different natural materials and tools used in the production of early medieval textiles 🤩🧶🏺 2/2
Tablet weaving with red and gold thread on wooden frame Four people stood like joking at tablet weaving device
September 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Day 4 of our post-excavation week and we have been out to visit our friends at Ad Gefrin and @davidpetts1.bsky.social on #Lindisfarne.

Lots of lovely early medieval goodness.
#northumberland #archaeology
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Groups stood in front of large stone features in an archaeological trench. Lindisfarne castle visible in the background
September 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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We're back for another post-ex week at #Bamburgh Castle 🎉🎉🎉

We've started by exploring our many small finds and bulk find assemblage.

The sun is out, the coffee is flowing and chat is good 🤩🏺
Individuals sat around a table washing finds with castle and blue sky in background Individuals sat around a table looking at finds inside a brick building
September 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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It's Day 2 of our post-ex week and we have spent the morning recording and illustrating some of our (many) small finds 🏺

This afternoon we were joined by Zooarch, Clare Rainsford, to explore how animal bones are understood and used in archaeological interpretation. 🦌🐈🐄🐇
Two individuals discussing a bone and more individuals bones on table People stood looking at articulated skeles on a table
September 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Day 3 of our post-ex week here at #Bamburgh Castle and we have gone all potty!

We spent the day making and firing various types of #pottery, while discussing all things ceramic🏺🔥
Red hot fire with pots poking out Pots on the ground with people stood around Young woman working on a pottery wheel
September 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Through can still join us for our post excavation week in September

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Post-Excavation Taster Week – One space still available
One place is still available for the September Post-Excavation week! If you are interested in joining us for a fun week where you get to see a rather different side of an archaeological dig, there …
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August 6, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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As we come to the end of another dig at Bamburgh, perhaps the most interesting discovery is that the timber lining to the well extends beneath a very likely medieval wall!
July 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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More #medieval worked #bone! bamburghresearchproject.wordpress.com/2025/07/11/f...
Fresh from the Trench: More Worked Bone, and a Reinterpretation
Last week for FFTT, we had a bit of bone we were tentatively calling a bone plaque or fitting, but a second bit of worked bone has also emerged from the topsoil. This is not a “secure” context so w…
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July 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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A red deer mandible! It came out of our #midden. This is one of the largest species of #deer, and one of two native to Britain, the other being the roe deer which is tinier. #zooarchaeology
A thumb and forefinger pinches the front of a jaw fragment. Teeth are visible on the other side.
July 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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A view of the trench this morning. Work goes on with leveling our sondage across the possible ditch, excavating our midden, and some recording via plan.
A person in a yellow shirt excavates a slot in the foreground. Two young women work sieving and troweling in diagonal quadrants of a midden. In the background, a supervisor teaches a student in a rugby shirt how to plan (bird's eye view drawing).
July 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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A glorious day to wash #finds outside the windmill!
A man sits with his back to the camera at a table. Two young women to sit washing artefacts at the left of the table, while a woman and man stand washing on the right side. Behind them, the North Sea.
July 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Your favourite #archaeologists fill you in on their offseason and future plans! bamburghresearchproject.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/t...
Team Updates
Your favourite archaeologists have some changes to their education and careers, and we wanted to fill you in since we’ve all been very productive in the off-season. Trench Officer Nat (center): Sin…
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July 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Washing finds from one quadrant of the midden! Lots of whelks! 🐚 #finds
Women select and wash soil-covered shells with toothbrushes and basins.
July 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Jack is excavating a sondage (mini-trench) next to the wall stump to give us a better idea of whether it's partially #medieval and #Victorian, or simply mostly Victorian. We have gotten some green glazed pottery sherds! #13thcentury
A young man in orange high-vis crouching and troweling in a rectangular area marked by orange string. Behind him is a stone wall with ivy draped over it.
July 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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#Medieval bone plaque, fresh from the trench!

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Fresh from the Trench: Bone Plaque
The new trench by the Victorian postern gate has already proven fruitful for interesting, if a bit modern bits and bobs, in 5E.  Our students have been making great progress working through the top…
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July 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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If you are just joining us here on Bluesky, welcome and thanks for following! We just started the #archaeology dig season up in beautiful #Northumberland at Bamburgh Castle.
June 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Isabella and Emily clearing the broken-off edge of later #medieval wall to the north of the postern gate! #excavation #archaeology
A young woman in a yellow had trowels around some stones in the foreground. Another young woman in a plum cap trowels in the background facing her.
June 30, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Trench Supervisor Elizabeth has some students sheltered from the thunderbugs/thrips in the windmill to learn about context recording. #archaeology
June 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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We are back on site for 2025
June 30, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Not sure what the hashtag will be, but come see me at ICMS!!!!

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I will be talking about the #medieval well we just found at Bamburgh Castle!
Screencap of ICMS schedule. “Well, Well, Well: Finding the Third Medieval Well of Bamburgh Castle. Saturday, May 10, 2025 Sangren Hall 4520 Will be held in person. This paper is a project update regarding the search for a medieval well at Bamburgh Castle in northern England by the Bamburgh Research Project, a nonprofit archaeological field school. The well was discovered in the summer of 2024, and it proved to be unlike the other medieval wells on-site.”
April 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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It seems a lifetime ago when I was there but this is terrible news

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New images reveal extent of looting at Sudan’s national museum as rooms stripped of treasures
Only a few statues remain, with thousands of priceless artefacts from Nubian and Kushite kingdoms missing
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March 31, 2025 at 1:23 PM