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AHS Students on Time Team Dig

In the middle of March, if you had travelled to Garboldisham, you would have found our students carrying out an archaeological dig under the supervision and guidance of Time Team’s Carenza Lewis and Paul Blinkhorn. Normally done by undergraduate students from Carenza’s Cambridge University archaeological faculty, our students burrowed into the earth near Thetford and rewrote the history of Garboldisham. Over two days all the finds from earth test pits were collected, cleaned and recorded, the whole being put together at Cambridge University on day three. Our students also had a chance to look round the University and try out the facilities of, perhaps, their future academic home.

Prelimary results suggest that Garboldisham had an intense period of human settlement in Neolithic times, after which the settlements dwindled only being partially resettled during Saxon times. The Norman invasion seemed to have unsettled things as occupation dwindled again but came back in the middle medieval age after which humans remained and thrived, especially through the Tudor period. It’s not often that a student gets to write the history books.

A terrific experience for our students and possible a future career path for some? Thanks to Cambridge University for the opportunity.

Mr Roberts