Archaeology in Alderney: Excavating the biggest Iron Age and Gallo-Roman site in the Channel Islands
In June 2017, contractors digging an electricity service trench, just inland from Longis Bay in Alderney, began to find human bones. Archaeologists from Guernsey quickly flew up to investigate, and so began six (COVID-19-interrupted) years of research into the biggest, and best-preserved, Iron Age and Gallo-Roman site in the Channel Islands. With another excavation just concluded, this seemed a good opportunity to summarise the results so far, as Philip de Jersey reports.