We visited a brand new permission last week that we gained in May this year.
We suspected that the site is Anglo-Saxon due to the research we carried out.

Unfortunately, the site has been ransacked by nighthawkers over the last 5 years, so many rare Anglo-Saxon coins and artefacts will have been stolen.

The first coin to emerge was indeed a Saxon styca of Aethelred II dating to AD 840 - AD 858.
Another styca and two sceats were also recovered during the same visit.
As well as Saxon coinage, Roman coins and artefacts also surfaced.
Several pieces of lead and small ferrous items were encountered reflecting that the site had been a very site over the years.
Saxon pins, mounts and Medieval objects also saw the light of day.

For the images of this visit, please visit this link: flic.kr/s/aHBqjARRT8

The archaeological dig at our Yorkshire farm went really well with lots of Roman pottery coming up including some fantastic large pieces!
Interesting to see the sizes of some of the pits and ditches.

There will be another report soon!

Well, after a false start due to the JCB having a technical problem the dig got underway with a ditch appearing within the first few minutes.
It wasn't long before several more features started to show including pits, post holes and other yet-to-be-explored archaeology.

​Here are a few of the first images showing just some of the features:

​There will be more images and news over the next few days.....

Next week see's the start of our annual dig in East Yorkshire.
​People from all over the world will be returning to one of the most popular digs carried out by DigVentures.

The JCB will cut the first trenches on Monday morning and we'll be there to survey the spoil heaps and trench floors.
The archaeologists are also conducting remote sensing in other areas including an area that we suspect may be a shrine site.

Whilst there, we will try and catch up with a few landowners as to the state of their harvest progress.
One has potatoes growing in a field that has produced the most Anglo-Saxon artefacts in any field we have ever surveyed.
Another farm (a new permission) has invited us to survey an area that has had nighthawkers stealing the history there for the last 5 years.
This could be another Anglo-Saxon site.

There are 4 more new permissions that we will be visiting during the dig.

Hopefully, we'll have more news and photo's over the next couple of weeks.