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Cupid bone pin from Dorchester former county hospital site
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04.04.2008

Dorchester, former County Hospital

One major discovery by Wessex Archaeology was a Roman mosaic dating to about 350AD at the former County Hospital site in Dorchester in Dorset. Dorchester has preserved many archaeological finds from its Roman past when it was called Durnovaria. Before building work began on the hospital site, Wessex Archaeology was asked to excavate for possible...
St Brannock’s Church, Braunton 3D model
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04.04.2008

St Brannock’s Church, Braunton

One of Wessex Archaeology’s most unusual projects was to create a 3D model of the earliest timber-framed church spire in Britain. Our archaeologists Bob Davis and David Warburton spent seven weeks surveying the Grade 1 Listed spire at St Brannock’s Church in Braunton near Barnstaple in Devon.
Roman enamel brooch from Cambourne
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17.03.2008

Cambourne

Wessex Archaeology record of over 1,000 years of uninterrupted settlement has been discovered in a huge archaeological excavation across six square kilometres (almost two and a half square miles) near Cambridge. A team of 35 archaeologists have worked on and off for seven years at the site at Cambourne, nine miles west of the city, in advance of...