CONTENT WARNING: this post contains photographs of human bones   In the 2025 season, the human remains team spent several weeks in The Church of St Mary the Virgin in Sedgeford. We ran our annual week-long “Introduction to Human Remains” course, as well as two weeks of human remains volunteers.   During the course, we cover basic skeletal anatomy, and how to assess human remains to determine an individual’s age at death, sex, height, and any illnesses or injuries they may hav

Despite the obvious interest in the car park trench and all the finds/exciting discoveries being made there, the malting site trench was never disserted. Some weeks we even managed to have more volunteers than we expected, going to show that archaeology is not all about finds. With a good core set of regular volunteers each week, keen to work on the amazing features we made huge progress and have increased yet again our understanding of the site.   This blog will summarise th