Brightwater
Discover the archaeology that’s helping to restore, reveal and celebrate life around the River Skerne
Dig Timeline
Catch up on all the action from site, as it happens
Mar 1 2022 - 4:53 PM
Roman Pottery from East Park
Archaeology isn’t just about digging, and it’s not just in the trenches that finds are made. DV has been piecing together the evidence in the Finds Room… There’s nothing more oddly satisfying than pieceing…
Apr 23 2021 - 1:00 PM
Speaking of…
Post-excavation analysis relies on two things: recording and finds. And boy do we have a lot of those!
Interested in seeing what exactly we found? Learning about our current thoughts? And how it all links back to the Prince Bishops? We’ve got the thing for you. Just because the dig is over doesn’t mean we’re finished yet!
Check out our calendar to see our upcoming events! With an exciting talk on architecture and a live look into our finds room, there’s something for everyone to enjoy.
Apr 23 2021 - 10:00 AM
It’s closing day!
Today is the day, time to say goodbye to Bishop Middleham Castle for now. On site, they’re backfilling the trenches. Back at HQ, we’re prepping for the next step: analysis!
Even though we’re sad to leave, we’re all super excited to see what we find out next.
Apr 22 2021 - 4:30 PM
Samples, samples, samples
Raphael is also busy today, getting some samples before we close up. These samples will be taken away and analysed to see if there’s anything in there that can help us learn more about the site.
Apr 22 2021 - 2:00 PM
Final countdown!
It’s our penultimate day on site today and things are getting busy! The team in Trench 3 are busy doing section drawings before we backfill. Jodie and Jen are recording all our features in a section drawing. This is a really detailed drawing that captures all the details of the walls so we can look back later.
It’s a nice sunny day for it! Not great for photos though…
Apr 22 2021 - 11:00 AM
A special visitor
Ben spotted something a bit funny on one of our walls today. Can you guess what it is?
It is in fact… a hoof print! The area here is mortar, so we think that what might have happened is when they were constructing it, they poured the mortar and left it for a while. And in this brief period, something stumbled across it – literally! We’re not sure what critter this print belongs to yet, but a closer look will be able to tell us more.
Archaeology / In Your Hands
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