Meldreth care home residents help with historical dig

The Royston Crow featured an article on Meldreth Local History Group’s test pit excavation at the village’s Maycroft Residential Care Home on the front page of their newspaper last Thursday. You can view the on-line article here. Access Cambridge Archaeology…

Meldreth, Cambridgeshire – First weekend of Community test pit digging

We’ve just had a really good weekend working with Meldreth Local History Group on their Heritage Lottery Fund  ‘All Our Stories‘ Project exploring the hidden history of the village through test pit excavations.  Access Cambridge Archaeology is being funded by…

Meldreth Test Pit Training Day

Meldreth Local History Group attended a training day at the University of Cambridge in advance of their community test pit excavations this summer. The group received a Heritage Lottery Funded grant to explore how the village has developed and evolved…

Cambridge Community Heritage Celebration Event 2013

In November 2012, it was announced that nearly 90% of community groups who applied to the HLF’s ‘All Our Stories’ fund with CCH support were successful. Since then, a team of nine University of Cambridge researchers have been in regular…

Connected Communities Showcase

Cambridge Community Heritage (CCH) were invited to showcase their community heritage and archaeology projects in London yesterday as part of the Arts & Humanties Research Council’s Connected Communities programme. Connected Communities is a cross-Council research programme which aims to understand…

CCH Supported Community Groups in the News

Cambridge Community Heritage supported twenty-two successful applications from local community groups to the Heritage Lottery Fund’s oversubscribed All Our Stories programme. An overwhelming success for the research team and the community groups who will be running an exciting range of…

Societies & Further Study

There are many opportunities at a national, regional and local level for people interested in learning informally or formally about their heritage and getting first-hand experience of archaeological excavation and survey methods. National Archaeology One place to start pursuing an…