What has Wessex Archaeology found?
Wessex Archaeology’s staff have made many important discoveries over the last 25 years, many of which are now in museums. Among the most recent important finds was the Amesbury Archer, the Bronze Age man whose skeleton and grave goods are among the richest ever found from this time. Other recent important excavations include a Roman mosaic dating to about 350AD at the former County Hospital site in Dorchester in Dorset. At our two-year excavation at Springhead in Kent in advance of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, we found 80,000 pieces of pottery, coins, brooches and pins, for example. The finds are taken from the site to Wessex Archaeology’s headquarters, where they are recorded, washed, analysed and stored. All are sent to museums for display. A report is prepared for our clients on what we have found and we frequently prepare a paper on the archaeology to be sent to an academic journal.
