Apparently, it’s not just HGV drivers that there’s a shortage of – there’s also a national shortage of archaeologists! So said Joanna Pine, Director of the excavation at Laurels Road, Offenham. This was a follow-on from the talk in May by Nina O’Hare about the Roman settlement. Jo spoke about the archaeological excavation undertaken by Thames Valley Archaeological Services (East Midlands) at the site of Valefresco. The process of the archaeological excavation was explained and Jo presented the results of the fieldwork. These showed that the site was occupied from the early prehistoric period through to late Roman times. Jo finished by discussing life as a field archaeologist and showed some of the interesting sites she had worked on in her 30-year career digging holes.
