News & blogs

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...

Caistor Roman Project Excavations, 23rd August 2023 The sun shone again for CBA East members’ third visit of the summer to the community excavations run by the Caistor Roman Project, Caistor St Edmunds, Norfolk. This well organised dig has put two trenches in the...

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/

The summer dig fieldwork has now finished and the dig blog is complete. Click below for the final version: https://crp23chhblog.wordpress.com/2023/08/09/excavation-blog-summer-2023/

Article from the BBC online news about the 2023 CRP summer dig at the Caistor Hall Hotel Click below to access the article https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-66548545  

What an excellent dig season! Thanks to the support from the hotel owners and their staff, we had a lot of ‘happy smiling people’ both in our membership as well as from the public who visited us. The archaeology was good too, prompting our hope that we can negotiate a...

This year Caistor Roman Project excavation is taking place between August 12th and 26th in the grounds of Caistor Hall Hotel, by kind permission of Brasted's. Public tours of the excavations will be available 16th-19th August and 21st-24th August. Admission is free...

The application form for this summer's dig is attached here. Please complete and return by email to Rhiane at rhianeCRP@outlook.com arriving no later than 4th Aug 2023. Excavation App Form CRP23 All those wishing to camp please let us know on your application email....

CRP will be running this year's summer excavation in the paddock behind the Caistor Hall Hotel - the field where you may remember we dug some test pits in 2020. The digging dates will be from Saturday 12 August to Sunday 27th August and there will also be work to do...