Osgodby Heritage & History Group

The penultimate week of the Osgodby Dig began with the whole team spending half an hour putting the turf back onto Trench 1, a reminder that the dig is coming to an end .  Two more test pits were then

After a week’s break, the team were back to help residents with test pits.  A number of villagers had come forward to either dig a pit themselves or to have members of the team dig one for them and great

The week started with a final push to fill in Trench 4, to the satisfaction of the garden owner. A hungry robin flitted around the team whilst they worked waiting for them to finish so he could get into the

Tuesday started with everyone helping to shovel the soil, dug out last week, back into Trench 4. This trench hadn’t revealed much in relation to the medieval village, with only 1 piece of medieval pottery found and still no evidence

There were a few jobs to do this week, including finishing recording of trench 2, washing finds from last week and of course, opening another trench.  There were enough willing volunteers to undertake all the tasks and the weather was

Where did the week end go! Back on site on Tuesday and April showers did not stop the enthusiasm of the volunteers. It really is heartening to have the support of individuals from other local groups helping us., together with

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

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

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

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