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SHARP Statement following the sentencing of Pamela Bent on Monday 14th October sharp.org.uk/single-post/sh…

As week three draws to an end, Hugo the Human Metal Detector wanted to show off how productive he's been...

Wattle you think of this?

@hannahmarie267 Little bit of excitement for the end of the week

@SedgefordArch Surely not

After a week of removing colluvium by hand, could that possibly be a feature we see before us?

Thanks to Clive Bond from the West Norfolk and King's Lynn Archaeological Society for giving an illuminating discussion on his work analysing flint scatters to explore prehistoric landscape occupation.

We've already got one time-travelling visitor so far....

And we're off! 10am till 4pm, we're here on Boneyard in Sedgeford with our #FestivalOfArchaeology

Entry is free, with donations welcome and all proceeds will go to support the charity (cash preferred for activities). Car parking is £3 in a nearby field, with parking on site for those with mobility issues, and we have a disabled portaloo (be aware ground is uneven).

Tomorrow (21st July) is the SHARP archaeological festival, There'll be trench tours, and local history groups will be here to discuss their own research. We also have crafts, poo excavations, trenches to dig and mini battles for the kids, alongside tombolas and raffles.

@broadsgirl We get lots of interest in the Romans, having dug a site at the top of the hill and finding a body in an oven. There is a probable villa that no one's dug before, so would be nice to test, but for me there's a probable early med cemetery that also hasn't been excavated.

@SedgefordArch Are there any parts of the parish you would like to dig? #2003participant 😊

It's #AskAnArchaeologist day, so feel free to shoot us any questions you have about archaeology, the project, or our ongoing trenches.

After 9 weeks out in the field, it's great to be welcomed back into civilisation 🤣🤣 #Archaeology

An a-moo-zing find has just been discovered by our BERTs today: A fragmented cow skull is slowly emerging out of a colluvial layer which appears to be sealing our Saxon occupation layer.

@YAC_CBA If a gag's worth doing visually, it's worth doing across all mediums!

@SedgefordArch The alt text is brilliant 😂👌

Who says @YAC_CBA activities are just for kids?

Sophie will be running a course related to this project next Monday to help train local volunteers to take part in mapping the local area, and will also be at our Festival of Archaeology this Sunday to showcase their work. sharp.org.uk/single-post/fr…

One key takeaway, for this admin at least, was that whilst AI has been used to process digital data, a lot of the records themselves are physical objects relying a human to process.

Thank you to Sophie Tremlett of the Norfolk County Council Air Photo Interpretation Team, who came to give a talk on using aerial photography to discover new archaeologicsl sites, as well as their new @HistoricEngland supported project to explore northwest Norfolk.