News & blogs

News

Season Blogs

News about the project is distributed to members via the Caistor Clarion, an email newsletter that normally goes out approximately once a month (and more frequently if there is a lot going on). News of wider public interest is also posted here.

Summer 2023 Finds Update – Mortarium Stamps

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...

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Summer 2023 Finds Update – Norwich Token

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...

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CRP Craft Fair – April 2023

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...

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Post-Ex finds update – Glass

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...

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Ornate Glass from Summer 2023

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...

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Stamped mortaria sherd from summer 2023

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...

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Latest news from the finds tray

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.

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Ooh Errr Missus

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?

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Post Excavation at the Barn

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...

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CRP at Dereham History Society

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...

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CRP Recent Finds

A new section has been added to this website to share details of recent finds. The fist one is live now. Please go to the Recent Finds section under the Resources tab. https://caistorromanproject.org/resources/

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2021 Season blog

Back for a third year in the Temple Field, August 2021.
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2021 Season blog

Back for a third year in the Temple Field, August 2021.
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2021 Season blog

Back for a third year in the Temple Field, August 2021.
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2020 Season blog

Digging in the paddock behind the Caistor Hall Hotel, August 2020.
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2019 Season blog

Digging the temple site in August 2019.
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2018 Season blog

Temple field in August 2018.
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2017 Season blog

Caistor Old Hall in 2017.
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2016 Season blog

Wymer Field in 2016
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2015 Season blog

Various 2014 activities
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2014 Season blog

Various 2014 activities
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2012 Season blog

2012 activities.
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2011 Season blog

2011 activities.
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2010 Season blog

2010 activities.
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2009 Season blog

2009 activities.
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