What’s in a name? The Pinhoe Hoard

First there was The Amesbury Archer and now Exeter has The Pinhoe Hoard! The brewery and pub chain Marston’s have decided to name their new ‘super pub’ on Pinhoe Road ‘The Pinhoe Hoard’ after Bronze Age artefacts found some years ago. Because of the wealth of archaeological discoveries made more recently during extensive housing development, […]

Excavations reveal complex archaeological site at Redhayes

Excavations being carried out at Tithebarn Green, Redhayes near Exeter are revealing a complex ancient landscape with occupation dating from the Neolithic through to the Medieval period. The Pin Brook enclosure, located at the northern end of the Tithebarn Green site has been particularly interesting. The enclosure may be of Bronze Age date but built […]

New specifications

Since 1st April 2015, the Historic Environment Team has changed the way it provides some services. For example, the Team have refined and put online the specifications for undertaking archaeological work in the county.  These documents set out the professional requirements for the main types of archaeological work that is undertaken.  Developers and archaeological consultants […]

The Seaton Down Hoard – the one millionth find

On Friday 26th September, the discovery of over 22,000 Roman coins near Seaton was reported simultaneously by the British Museum and The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter. The find was made late in 2013, but had been kept a closely guarded secret while the coins were being analysed and until a decision was made on […]

Bears and Beads on Whitehorse Hill

The amazing array of finds from a Bronze Age burial on Whitehorse Hill on Dartmoor will be on display at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery from 13th September – 13th December 2014. The excavation of a Bronze Age cist, a small stone-built coffin on Whitehorse Hill on Dartmoor has revealed a remarkable assemblage of […]

Festival Round Up

A number of archaeological excavations and open days in Devon have coincided with the Council for British Archaeology’s Festival of British Archaeology 2014. Here are a few of the events that took place, benefiting from the glorious weather we have enjoyed this year. Haldon Belvedere On a wonderfully sunny evening the Devon Historic Buildings Trust […]

Training Private Ryan

The 70th anniversary of the D-Day Landings on 6th June is a time to commemorate the people that took part in them and the epic events that heralded the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi occupation. Here in Devon we can also look with pride at Operation Overlord’s legacy that can still be seen in […]

West Down inscribed stone

In September 2012 eagle-eyed 13 year old Jack Lawrence found, in a pile of rubble in his garden in West Down, North Devon, a large inscribed stone. The stone had once formed part of a roadside stone wall, which had been removed in the late 1990s and the rubble left in a pile until it […]

Lest we forget

As the centenary of the outbreak of war approaches, Devon County Council, along with many other organisations, is preparing to help remember the Fallen of World War 1. Devon Remembers has been launched. This is a grant scheme to support the conservation of war memorials. Associated community research projects are planned. More than 11,000 Devon […]

Hemerdon Tungsten Mine

After two years the archaeological investigations being undertaken on the site of the tungsten mine at Hemerdon are winding up.  This work, funded by the developer – Wolf Minerals Ltd, undertaken during the long wet summer of 2012 and the blistering heat of 2013 has involved the recording of the historic mine buildings, excavation of […]