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DIG DIARY: Walking in Roman footprints

21 May 2013

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My name is James Fairbairn and I am an archaeologist from Oxford Archaeology East. Along with a fellow colleague Rob Atkins we helped lead an Archaeological field walking exercise on land at Great Stukeley Huntingdonshire. The work was funded by Urban and Civic property group and arranged by the Stukeley Heritage group and continued our [...]

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WHAT’S ON – SUNDAY 26 MAY: teams needed for Oxmoor Family Fun Day 5-a-Side

21 May 2013

Family Fun Day poster

THIS SUNDAY at Coneygear Park, Huntingdon, the Oxmoor Family Fun Day includes 5-a-side football from 11am-3pm. More teams are needed so, if you’d like to join in, leave a comment below or get in touch with David Allwood on 07857550530. There’s plenty more going on during the day so get down to Coneygear Park and [...]

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WHAT’S ON – SATURDAY 25 MAY: come and be a musician for a day!-

21 May 2013

WHAT’S ON – SATURDAY 25 MAY: come and be a musician for a day!-

Huntingdon Music School Association is visiting Huntingdon Library to encourage people to try out an instrument, play for fun or have a taster lesson. Library customers will be able to play a selection of instruments from brass to woodwind, guitars to a piano. Customers will also have the opportunity to listen to live performances and [...]

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DIG DIARY: Ermine Street Dig – an Environmental Perspective

20 May 2013

How interesting can a bucket of mud really be?

My name is Rhiannon and I am currently working on the Ermine Street site in Huntingdon. I split my time between working on site; helping to excavate and record the archaeology, and working as part of the Environmental team at Oxford Archaeology East; processing samples and preparing them for analysis by our Environmental Archaeologist, Rachel. [...]

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WHAT’S ON – TONIGHT! Streets Revolution Volunteers Workshop

20 May 2013

Streets Revolution logo

MONDAY 20 MAY: Do you have skills or knowledge you could pass on to young people in Huntingdonshire? It could be anything from cookery or photography to computer skills and languages. You don’t have to be an expert but your particular expertise could really help over 16s in Huntingdonshire expand their skill set, boost their [...]

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Charging for Green Bins

20 May 2013

I have just been informed by HDC that they are going to start charging for recycling green bin waste from second bins. How ridiculous, having managed to motivate us (by sticks and carrots) to increase recycling massively over the past few years, they are just about to start undoing that good work. I am guessing [...]

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Twinkle twinkle little star Upwood’s where the flowers are!

16 May 2013

Twinkle twinkle little star Upwood’s where the flowers are!

The theme for this year’s Upwood St Peter’s Church Flower Festival to be held on 15th and 16th June is Nursery Rhymes.  The event will be coupled with Open Gardens in the village on Sunday 16th June. The flower festival will run from11.00 to 4.30pm on both days with cream teas and a free activity [...]

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The Huntingdon Ermine Street Dig – Behind the Scene

16 May 2013

We have all seen the “diggers” on Time Team but the unsung heroes are the folk behind the scene who slog away handling, cleaning and registering the vast amounts of artifacts recovered from the dig site. The call for local volunteers has been fantastic, every Thursday a small group, which may include retired vicars, solicitors [...]

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DIG DIARY: Ermine Street Dig find of the week

15 May 2013

Medieval dagger chape

We’ve been finding huge amounts of medieval pottery and animal bone which is all really interesting for because it tells us about the economy and industry in the medieval period but we’ve also been finding some things that are just nice objects in themselves and probably one of the best so far is a chape [...]

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Replaced Street Name signs

14 May 2013

Street Names

I just wanted to thank the authorities for responding to the issue raised regarding the vandalised and broken Street Name signs in Huntingdon. Well done everyone, especially Shape your Place for providing this site where issues can be easily raised.

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