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Time Team at Sutton Hoo
Following a successful return to Sutton Hoo this summer, Time Team have again joined forces with the National Trust and will carry out another investigation in Garden Field in 2025. Working in partnership with the National Trust, FAS Heritage, and over 80 volunteers, this summer’s dig was the largest on the site since the early 2000s. It found further fragments of the 6th-century Bromeswell Bucket (see CA 414), as well as human cremations indicating that a known early Anglo-Saxon burial ground may extend further than thought. Next year’s dig is set to take place between 19 May and 13 June, and will be filmed in anticipation of a documentary hosted by Tony Robinson.
Huddersfield home for new Centre of Archaeology
The University of Huddersfield has welcomed the Centre of Archaeology, which will use the university as a site from which to continue its groundbreaking research on sites both at home and abroad. The centre, previously located in the University of Staffordshire, is being led by Caroline Sturdy Colls, Professor of Holocaust Archaeology and Genocide Investigation, and will link up with the Holocaust Centre North to continue current projects and develop new research. Projects run by the Centre have included uncovering a medieval mill in Tamworth and preserving a building owned by Shakespeare’s daughter in Stratford-upon-Avon. The Centre is also currently undertaking a major investigation at a site at Trawniki in Poland, the training site for thousands of concentration-camp guards. They hope to collaborate with AI researchers at the university as well, in order to explore how AI can be used to take their work further.
Historic England reveals 2024 Heritage at Risk register
Last month, Historic England released its annual list of monuments and sites registered as ‘at risk’, which gives an annual snapshot of the state of valued buildings and places in England. This year, 155 sites have been added to the register, including Kings Norton Old Grammar School in the West Midlands, which was famously targeted by the suffragettes, and Tudor fortress Hurst Castle in Hampshire. A further 124 sites have been removed from the register after being ‘saved’, including King Arthur’s Hall on Bodmin Moor (see here), and Saltdean Lido in East Sussex. A 17th century timber-framed house in Cheadle, with links to Bonnie Prince Charlie, has been restored, too, after it faced severe structural issues caused by falling timber frame supports. In total, £8.14 million was granted by Historic England for repairs to 191 sites on the Heritage at Risk Register during 2023/2024.
Text: Rebecca Preedy / Image: Historic England
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