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MSc Archaeology Student Wins Prestigious Award

Wed 14 Jan 2026

Oxford Lifelong Learning is delighted to share the news that one of our Archaeology students has won a prestigious national award.

Archaeology Training Dig 2022

Thu 26 May 2022

Students on the Certificate and Diploma in Archaeology at The Department experience excavation techniques as part of their course.

Revealing the Hallstatt Collection at the Ashmolean Museum

Wed 12 May 2021

Dr Jennifer Foster, archaeologist and Departmental tutor, is working with the Ashmolean Museum to publish artifacts found at an epic early Iron Age site at Hallstatt in Austria.

The Archaeology of East Oxford: free book available for download

Fri 30 Oct 2020

‘The Archaeology of East Oxford’, a new book which explores the fascinating history of East Oxford, is now published online and free to download from the ADS (Archaeology Data Service)

New book, ‘Barbaric Splendour’ available for download

Thu 30 Jul 2020

A new book, Barbaric Splendour: The use of image before and after Rome, explores and compares art of the Iron Age and Early Medieval period.

Detectorists Win National Archaeology Training Award

Sat 14 Sep 2019

In April 2019, the course 'Metal Detecting for Archaeological Projects: An Introduction' won the Archaeology Training Forum Award

Citizen Scientists Needed for ‘Beacons of the Past’

Sat 14 Sep 2019

Help wanted to identify new archaeological features in the Chilterns ‘Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty’ (AONB)

Orkney - an archaeologist's paradise

Thu 11 Jul 2019

Unearthing Orkney's Viking past: a real insight into one of the first places the Vikings settled in the UK

Where the bodies are buried

Thu 13 Apr 2017

A works project in the summer of 1994 in Rewley House's Acland Garden unearthed some unexpected surprises.

East Oxford Archaeology wins 'Public Engagement with Research' Award

Thu 30 Jun 2016

The project 'East Oxford – One History or Many?' has won the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement.

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