Full of anticipation and excitement, the Osgodby Dig began on 5 April, with professional direction by Jon Kenny, Community Archaeologist. It was great to meet all the volunteers on site. The first job of the day was to put-up the
It’s time to get digging!
You can be excused for thinking we are about to give some Spring advice for your garden – but no – the Osgodby Dig is about to start! Jon Kenny our Community Archaeologist will be leading the dig in the
Using Maps for Local & Family History Workshop 20 March 2022
We were delighted to welcome back John Lee to give a talk on Using Maps for Local & Family History. It’s great that John lives locally and can relate his topics to the local area. We got off to a
Learning about Building Archaeology – 8 March 2022
It was our monthly meeting last night. We were pleased to welcome Janet and Jen to the meeting. We all introduced ourselves, and Jen had brought along a Guinness cake – which went down very well with the group! Mark
What’s occurin? – w/c 28 February 2022
The village has been without one of it’s social hubs The Wadkin Arms since it closed in November 2020, and after much rumour and speculation, Simon the new landlord, had sent a social media message that the pipes had had
A Trip to the Pub – 25 February 2022
Mark, Jan and Shirley had a trip to The Waddy at lunchtime – and not a drop of alcohol passed their lips. They met with Simon, the new landlord of the Waddy, to chat through doing some building archaeology surveying.
Upcoming Talk – Sunday 20 March
We are looking forward to John Lee returning to Osgodby after his very interesting talk on Knights Templar way back in 2019 to a large audience. At that talk, there was “controversy” and lots of loud debate about if Knights
Up, up and away – flying high today – 11 February 2022
Today, Mark met a friend in the village with the intention of using her drone to take some aerial photos of Pear Tree Farm and the Wadkin Arms as part of the buildings archaeology survey, and the Village Institute. In
Monthly Meeting – 8 February 2022
It was a night of technology mis-behaving! The portable projector flickered on and off all night, but we managed to ignore it with the occasional utterings of “grr flipping heck, what’s wrong with it”. Tea and coffee cups filled, we
Geophysics – Day Three 26 January 2022
On 26 January, we were doing some more geophysics on land adjacent to the area we had explored in September last year. Surprisingly for the time of year, is was a pleasant morning weather-wise. We were all wrapped up and