Olivia Sharrard will be joining the TAG team as an Advisor. She has already played an important role in the writing of our constitution and application for charitable status, and will have special responsibility for coordinating our planned ‘Research Seminar Series’. Here’s a little more about Olivia: “Olivia is a UK-based Volunteering and Community Engagement … More Olivia Sharrard becomes an Advisor

TAG is excited to announce volunteer opportunities and events for the month of July. SATURDAY 11th and SUNDAY 12th JULY: we will be returning to Windmill House to continue our excavations. We hope to make significant progress and there will be room for a relatively large number of volunteers. SATURDAY 18th JULY: we commence our … More Events and Volunteer Opportunities in July

We are delighted to announce that James Lawton has joined TAG as an Advisor. As you’ll see below, James is a highly experienced specialist in geophysical prospection, and given the importance of the latter to TAG’s programme of fieldwork, this makes him a very important addition to the team: “James is a professional Archaeological Geophysicist … More James Lawton joins TAG

We had a splendid day fieldwalking at Windmill House on Sunday. The team worked exceptionally hard, and as a result, we not only completed widespaced walking across the entire field, but also managed to get some total collection done across an area 60m by 30m. The former produced around 140 finds, with the latter adding … More Thank you!

A reminder that we will be returning to our excavation at Windmill House on Sunday 3rd and Monday 4th May. Its jolly exciting to be heading back, and we hope to make progress with identifying the features we started digging in 2025. If you would like to volunteer, and haven’t yet done so, please use … More Excavation at Windmill House

TAG had an eventful Easter! As you know, our intended focus for fieldwork was Sinderby, with a geophysics survey of the henge, and fieldwalking immediately to the east of the monument. It started well on Good Friday, with some of the volunteers helping Dr. Ben Edwards and Prof. Seren Griffiths, of Manchester Metropolitan University, with … More Easter Fieldwork

We have some important and urgent news to share with you all. You may recall us mentioning some time ago that we hoped to do some fieldwork at the Sinderby henge. Well, we are. And it’s happening this week! On Thursday, Friday and Saturday we have a geophysics survey being conducted at the henge by … More URGENT: Sinderby henge

We thought that some of you may find the below of interest. HERs, or Historic Environment Records, are vital to archaeology, and indeed the planning process. In fact, TAG has recently been using North Yorkshire’s HER to produce a landscape-based desktop study for the Sinderby henge and its surrounding landscape. You will be hearing more … More Historic Environment Records (HERs)

I’m delighted to announce we are now offering places on our Windmill House Project. We will be continuing our excavation of a prehistoric lithic scatter and its associated features on Sunday 3rd May and Monday 4th May, so if you would like to volunteer for one or both of these days then please get in-touch … More Windmill House 2026

TAG would like to thank all those who participated in our fieldwalking event at Copt Hewick Common on 22nd March 2026. The team worked exceptionally hard and successfully walked an impressively large area, despite the field’s heavy vegetation cover. The vast majority of finds are post-medieval pottery and glass, but the collection also includes 27 … More Fieldwalking at Copt Hewick Common