Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project
@sedgefordarch.bsky.social
SHARP is a long-term, independently run archaeological research project investigating the range of human settlement and activity in Sedgeford, Norfolk.
https://www.sharp.org.uk/
https://www.sharp.org.uk/
Tuesday night was the lecture in the Sedgeford church, and a moonlit trip home from the village pub afterwards....
Today was mostly spent cleaning Trench 25 prior to a drone shot to help plan out the work for the coming weeks, but we did get to dig out a trench from 2007 and found this 6 inch nail!
Today was mostly spent cleaning Trench 25 prior to a drone shot to help plan out the work for the coming weeks, but we did get to dig out a trench from 2007 and found this 6 inch nail!
July 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Tuesday night was the lecture in the Sedgeford church, and a moonlit trip home from the village pub afterwards....
Today was mostly spent cleaning Trench 25 prior to a drone shot to help plan out the work for the coming weeks, but we did get to dig out a trench from 2007 and found this 6 inch nail!
Today was mostly spent cleaning Trench 25 prior to a drone shot to help plan out the work for the coming weeks, but we did get to dig out a trench from 2007 and found this 6 inch nail!
Matilda, one of our BERTs, even found this lovely bone pin!
This beat out our volunteers by some way, as they'd spent the day rechecking our TBMs across site to refresh their skills.
This beat out our volunteers by some way, as they'd spent the day rechecking our TBMs across site to refresh their skills.
July 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Matilda, one of our BERTs, even found this lovely bone pin!
This beat out our volunteers by some way, as they'd spent the day rechecking our TBMs across site to refresh their skills.
This beat out our volunteers by some way, as they'd spent the day rechecking our TBMs across site to refresh their skills.
We had 'Dig for the Days' on Tuesday, who excavated sondages through a colluvial deposit which contained Saxon pottery, bone and oystershell.
We also have BERTs (Basic Excavation & Recording Techniques) who started their own sondage into a different colluvium and found large animal bone.
We also have BERTs (Basic Excavation & Recording Techniques) who started their own sondage into a different colluvium and found large animal bone.
July 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
We had 'Dig for the Days' on Tuesday, who excavated sondages through a colluvial deposit which contained Saxon pottery, bone and oystershell.
We also have BERTs (Basic Excavation & Recording Techniques) who started their own sondage into a different colluvium and found large animal bone.
We also have BERTs (Basic Excavation & Recording Techniques) who started their own sondage into a different colluvium and found large animal bone.
Monday saw us hiding from the rain in the morning, but by the afternoon we were all out cleaning the trenches and started finding things, including this lovely piece of Samien ware, dating to the mid 1st C.
Our daub project was also in full swing, assessing our collection for 3d scanning next week.
Our daub project was also in full swing, assessing our collection for 3d scanning next week.
July 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Monday saw us hiding from the rain in the morning, but by the afternoon we were all out cleaning the trenches and started finding things, including this lovely piece of Samien ware, dating to the mid 1st C.
Our daub project was also in full swing, assessing our collection for 3d scanning next week.
Our daub project was also in full swing, assessing our collection for 3d scanning next week.
Our open day/archaeology festival is on the 20th of July, but you're welcome any time, Sunday to Friday.
June 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Our open day/archaeology festival is on the 20th of July, but you're welcome any time, Sunday to Friday.
You're more than welcome to down come and see what we're up to.
There has been some discussion about doing a survey to see where everyone's ended up after coming dig here. It's our 30th anniversary next year, so it'd be nice to get some idea of how successful the BERT programme has been.
There has been some discussion about doing a survey to see where everyone's ended up after coming dig here. It's our 30th anniversary next year, so it'd be nice to get some idea of how successful the BERT programme has been.
June 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
You're more than welcome to down come and see what we're up to.
There has been some discussion about doing a survey to see where everyone's ended up after coming dig here. It's our 30th anniversary next year, so it'd be nice to get some idea of how successful the BERT programme has been.
There has been some discussion about doing a survey to see where everyone's ended up after coming dig here. It's our 30th anniversary next year, so it'd be nice to get some idea of how successful the BERT programme has been.
It will have a RRP of £40 and will be sold during the season in our shop on site, but a free online publication will be made available later.
To gauge interest in physical copies so that we can print to meet demand, or just to get more information about its contents, please follow the link below.
To gauge interest in physical copies so that we can print to meet demand, or just to get more information about its contents, please follow the link below.
2020 Conference Volume Pre-order | Cognito Forms
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June 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
It will have a RRP of £40 and will be sold during the season in our shop on site, but a free online publication will be made available later.
To gauge interest in physical copies so that we can print to meet demand, or just to get more information about its contents, please follow the link below.
To gauge interest in physical copies so that we can print to meet demand, or just to get more information about its contents, please follow the link below.
Here's a link to our course page, should anyone there be interested in having a go over with us.
For myself, I've enjoyed making glass beads, but we don't (yet) have the capacity to do that here. A few years back I did take part in attempting to smelt copper ore, which was definitely hard work.
For myself, I've enjoyed making glass beads, but we don't (yet) have the capacity to do that here. A few years back I did take part in attempting to smelt copper ore, which was definitely hard work.
EXPERIMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY | SHARP
www.sharp.org.uk
April 13, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Here's a link to our course page, should anyone there be interested in having a go over with us.
For myself, I've enjoyed making glass beads, but we don't (yet) have the capacity to do that here. A few years back I did take part in attempting to smelt copper ore, which was definitely hard work.
For myself, I've enjoyed making glass beads, but we don't (yet) have the capacity to do that here. A few years back I did take part in attempting to smelt copper ore, which was definitely hard work.
We do think Dobbin is one of the cutest of our finds!
April 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
We do think Dobbin is one of the cutest of our finds!
We run a course on ancient crafting techniques, which while not aimed at making precise replicas, is about the art of learning how past people did make their objects. Some have been gone on to take those techniques up as a hobby, and we look forward to seeing their skills developing.
April 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
We run a course on ancient crafting techniques, which while not aimed at making precise replicas, is about the art of learning how past people did make their objects. Some have been gone on to take those techniques up as a hobby, and we look forward to seeing their skills developing.