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

It gives me the very greatest pleasure to announce I’ve been made an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Archaeology, University of York. It is our hope that this will help TAG’s development, ushering in a partnership between ourselves and York from which we will both benefit. I will work especially closely with academic … More University of York

We thought you may appreciate hearing about some of our forthcoming events, so you can pop them in your diaries. The first of these is a day of fieldwalking on Sunday 22nd March, at a location not too far from the Hutton Moor and Cana Barn henges. This is now open to volunteers, so if … More Forthcoming Events

I am delighted to announce that Ben Potts, whom many of you know through participating in our fieldwork, has joined TAG’s Management Committee. Ben is already making an extremely positive contribution, and we are lucky to have him as part of the team. Ben is a change and project manager, a member of the Chartered … More Welcome to Benjamin Potts

TAG’s Management Committee would like to wish everyone a very happy New Year! May the year ahead bring you, and your loved ones, both health and happiness. We certainly intend to play our part in delivering an exciting and rewarding 2026. Scheduled Monument Consent allowing, we hope to start the year with fieldwalking and geophysical … More Happy New Year!

I would like to wish each and everyone of you a very happy Christmas. Thornborough, and those other wonderful monuments found nearby, are very special places and I like to think that TAG works hard to create a very special sort of ‘family’ to help us all enjoy and understand these landscapes. Our hardworking Management … More Happy Christmas