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And so it's finally finished... Now that the dirt is about to go back into the holes, it's time to thank you all for your involvement - on so many levels - in this year's work at the hotel. I'm going to leave it to Giles to tell you - in due course - why this year's...

YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND CRP’s TWO SUMMER DIG 2025 LECTURES! Monday 18th August, 7.00pm at Caistor Hall Hotel Speaker: Professor Will Bowden Monday 1st September, 7.00pm at Caistor Hall Hotel Speaker: Jan Bird Search for tickets on EVENTBRITE at: CAISTOR ROMAN...

Caistor Roman Project invites you to visit our 2025 Summer Excavation at the Caistor Hall Hotel, Caistor St Edmund Open Day 1:  Saturday 23rd August Open Day 2: Saturday 30th August View the 2025 trenches and see what our archaeological team have uncovered Free...

Be our guest with an Archaeology Taster Day this summer 2025! Have you ever wanted to take part in an archaeological dig? Then this could be your opportunity to have a go and see if it is for you! The Caistor Roman Project is a welcoming group of volunteer...

Meetings take place in the Thomas Paine Lecture Theatre at the UEA at 2.30 pm (except for December, when we meet jointly with the NNAS at 2.15 in Norwich Castle). There is a hearing loop in the lecture theatre. Refreshments will be available afterwards. Non-members...

Be our guest with an Archaeology Taster Session this summer! Have you ever wanted to take part in an archaeological dig? Then this could be your opportunity to have a go and see if it is for you! The Caistor Roman Project is a welcoming group of volunteer...

Update on Mortarium Stamps  This was the pristine mortarium stamp recovered during the 2022 excavation on Friston Field. It appears from images of Donald Atkinson’s drawings (courtesy of Nat Harlow) that there were at least 3 known examples of this potter found during...

Caistor Hall Hotel Excavation - Summer 2023 An interesting Norwich token was recovered from Trench 9 (SF23545) during last summer’s excavation in the hotel paddock. (Photos pending publication) This particular token is a relatively rare issue of Francis Elmer, wool...

Dear CRP Members I would like to announce that we now have a date and venue for our upcoming Craft Fair to raise money for CRP. The date is Monday 22nd April The venue is The Caistor Hall Marquee The time 7 - 6. Setting up and packing up included Fair open from 10 - 5...

This is the third outstanding example of Roman glass recovered from last summer’s excavations in the hotel paddock. It appears that we have the central part of a probable stirring rod used for medicines or cosmetics etc.. Example in the British Museum...

Some of you may remember this intriguing piece of ornate glass recovered from Trench 9 towards the end of the excavation. Harriet Foster has kindly identified it as a decorative piece added to the body of a jug at the bottom of the handle. Without seeing it in person...

Thanks to Alice Lyons our RB pottery specialist the lovely stamped mortarium sherd was conveyed up to Leeds and subjected to the expert attention of Kay Hartley (Kay Hartley Mortarium Archive Project). As an aside, Kay’s archive of mortarium stamps assembled over...