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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...

A recent promotion from the relative obscurity of the bulk finds assemblage in the barn to the hallowed turf of small finds is this example of an expertly riveted repair to a piece of samian fineware. Hopefully a lowly slave wasn’t responsible for the breakage.

Phallic amulet found by Dan the detectorist in the Caistor Hall Hotel garden recently. Nice find. Will thinks it’s a harness pendant Next year’s t-shirt logo perhaps - or perhaps a knitted version from Margaret?

Post excavation work at the barn is in full swing, meeting from 9.30 to 12 ish on Monday and Thursdays mornings. Up to 20 members are turning up regularly while the weather holds and we are currently cleaning and sorting finds before washing and cataloguing. All...

Extract from the Dereham Heritage Trust Newsletter of Summer 2023 June : The Roman Town at Caistor St Edmund, Andy Woodman Andy, Vice Chair of Caistor Roman Project presented a talk, standing in for his Chair, Mike Pinner, who was unable to join us. Caistor Roman...