Places
The butt (handle) end of a polished stone axe from the centre of the henge
Today, the online magazine Heritage Daily has published a short summary of the work on site that also puts the henge into is local setting. Now that the work on site has finished, Norton Community Archaeology Group has the task of processing the more than 13,000 individually numbered objects that have been excavated since 2010, a huge task. This work on the finds from a site, which is known as post-excavation work, is usually more time consuming than the original fieldwork and demands the involvement of numerous specialists (in this case, a prehistoric pottery expert, a flint specialist, an animal bone expert and a human bone specialist: and that is just to deal with the Neolithic/Early Bronze Age aspects of the site).
As work progresses on the finds, we will no doubt learn lots more interesting facts about this unusual (perhaps even unique!) site. We will keep people informed through both this blog and the Norton Community Archaeology Group’s blog.
A survey carried out by Kris Lockyear and his team at Verulamium (St Albans)
Sensing the Iron Age and Roman Past: Geophysics and the Landscape of Hertfordshire is a new blog about an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project being carried out by Kris Lockyear of University College London. He and interested local groups will be investigating a number of Late Iron Age and Roman sites throughout Hertfordshire — from small farmsteads to the city of Verulamium — across the county that hold the potential to yield new information about this imporant period in the county’s history.
This week at Burymead we found a huge amount of brilliantly stored carrier bags from Hitchin shops past and present. We found it really interesting to look through them, and it certainly provoked some conversation between the staff present about the shops we remember and what they used to sell.
We hope you enjoy looking at the selection we have chosen and feel free to share with us what memories you have of Hitchin’s High Street.
