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Excavating a Saxon cemetery

Posted by: Richard Osgood, Posted on: 2 August 2022 - Categories: Archaeology, Operation Nightingale, Salisbury Plain Training Area
A man in a t-shirt, trousers and a hat kneels next to an excavated grave, containing a skeleton, and smiles at the camera

I’ve been running Operation Nightingale archaeological digs now for more than ten years. It’s an initiative to assist the recovery of wounded, injured and sick military personnel and veterans by getting them involved in archaeological investigations. It’s always a real …

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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 …

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