Richard Osgood

DIO Senior Historic Adviser

Launch of new book on excavations at Barrow Clump

Posted by: Richard Osgood, Posted on: 9 January 2020 - Categories: Archaeology, Defence infrastructure, Environment, Operation Nightingale, Salisbury Plain

Today, marked the official launch of my new book on 'Exercise Beowulf' which covers years of excavation work at Barrow Clump.

DIO's award-winning archaeologist

Posted by: Richard Osgood, Posted on: 25 March 2019 - Categories: Archaeology, Defence infrastructure, Environment, Environment and Ecology

Archaeology in DIO is unique compared to any other organisation. The MOD owns about 1% of the UK mainland and is responsible for preserving, protecting and maintaining 777 Scheduled Monuments.

Excavating military tracks at Barrow Clump

Posted by: Richard Osgood, Posted on: 23 July 2018 - Categories: Archaeology, Environment, Environment and Ecology, Military Training, Operation Nightingale, Salisbury Plain

Hi, my name is Richard Osgood and I'm the Senior Archaeologist at DIO. Today I'll be blogging about the team of military veterans, service personnel and volunteers from Wessex Archaeology and Breaking Ground Heritage who helped to unearth the excavation …

Monumental effort restores ‘Bulford Kiwi’ to its original splendour

Posted by: Richard Osgood, Posted on: 2 July 2018 - Categories: Archaeology, Army Basing Programme, Defence infrastructure, Salisbury Plain

Hi, I’m Richard Osgood and I’m DIO’s senior archaeologist. Part of DIO’s role is to look after the MOD estate and we do a lot of work to preserve and protect monuments and sites of historical and scientific interest. Last …

Restoring a monument to its former glory

Posted by: Richard Osgood, Posted on: 16 October 2017 - Categories: Army Basing Programme, Communications, Defence infrastructure, Environment, Environment and Ecology, Military Training

People may not realise that as part of DIO’s duty to look after the MOD estate, we do a lot of work to preserve and protect monuments and sites of historical and scientific interest. My name is Richard Osgood and …

Searching for War Horse

Posted by: Richard Osgood, Posted on: 9 October 2014 - Categories: Archaeology

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few years, you’re bound to have heard something about War Horse. It started life as a children’s book by Michael Morpurgo, about the wartime experiences of a horse named Joey …

Operation Nightingale: The eagle has landed

Posted by: Richard Osgood, Posted on: 29 August 2014 - Categories: Archaeology, Environment

Last summer, participants on Operation Nightingale recovered the remains of Spitfire P9503 on Salisbury Plain. This was part of a project to provide two case studies of best recovery practice to English Heritage. The second of these recoveries is taking …