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Back in 1991 the Commandant of the Otterburn Training Area donated a small silver trophy in the shape of an Otter to recognise the best conservation effort on MOD land. Twenty six years later and the Sanctuary Awards have grown …
My name is Si Cleggett and I am the Wessex Archaeology Project Manager for the Army Basing Programme. Wessex Archaeology is one of the Country’s leading heritage practices. We were commissioned by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation’s (DIO) consultant’s WYG to …
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 …
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 …
I work in DIO’s Communications team at our Head Office in Sutton Coldfield, where a big part of my role is working on our social media channels. That includes this very blog and our Twitter account, @mod_dio – with which …
Phil Abramson, a DIO archaeologist, returns to update us on what he's been up to since his last blog: To be honest sitting at a desk is not usually my favourite way to spend the day. Not just because of …
Phil Abramson returns to tell us more about working as a DIO archaeologist. Read his first blog here. As a child my parents used to take me on weekend trips to the various stately homes around Manchester. Little Moreton Hall …
Another long day in the office and it’s time to log off and drive home. But it’s not always like this. As an Environmental Advisor for the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) I could just as likely be perusing a prehistoric …
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