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left A volunteer team of veterans head to the site, led by Richard Osgood, Senior Archaeologist for the MOD’s Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and co-founder of Operation Nightingale, during the excavations at Dunch Hill.
An experiment in earthen walls: Operation Nightingale, Butser Ancient Farm, and the Dunch Hill roundhouse
The excavation of a Bronze Age roundhouse on Salisbury Plain has fed into a new reconstruction at Butser Ancient Farm, using experimental archaeology to interpret its ephemeral outline. Trevor Creighton, Richard Osgood, and Rachel Pope explain.
Just north of Bulford, inside the MOD’s Salisbury Plain estate, lies a site called Dunch Hill. This spot is close to the military drivers’ training area, and in 1995 excavations there by Wessex Archaeology had revealed the presence of roundhouses beneath a track that was being laid. In 2020, as part of an assessment of the effects of ground pressure from military and farm vehicles on archaeological deposits, we were fortunate enough to excavate the footprint of another roundhouse adjacent to where the previous investigation had taken place. Working between COVID-19 lockdowns – outdoors and socially distanced – our team was led by Wessex Archaeology’s Phil Andrews, as the 1995 excav
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