WELCOME!

This website is about an exciting community archaeology project based at Nether Heyford in Northamptonshire, UK. A team of professional archaeologists, students and volunteers has been working since 2000 to uncover the rich history of a beautiful corner of the English countryside.

At the heart of the project is a sophisticated Roman villa and bath house complex which was the centre of an agricultural estate extending over about 10 acres.

The Project is largely locally funded and a great emphasis is placed on community involvement in both the process of uncovering the evidence and in disseminating the knowledge it generates.

This web site

If you're a newcomer, try starting with The Story So Far to get you up to speed.

You can use the menu on the left hand side of the page to navigate to any subject that particularly interests you.

Or you might like to follow in turn the three major strands of the web site:

• The Fieldwork: the process so far and the results it has generated.
• The Project: how it was constructed; how it operates; its future.
• Material Culture: some of the finds.

In addition there are some creative contributions inspired by working on the project - see Musings - and some photos of the Project's end-of-dig Open Days (2001, 2002, 2003).

There is also coverage of:

• the Roman burial uncovered in 2003
• the 7th century Anglo-Saxon burials found in the hinterland of Whitehall Villa
• the 2001 Iron Smelting Experiment conducted next to the villa site.

We hope you enjoy your visit and that you will visit again - the site will be constantly developed alongside the Project, so there will often be something new to see. The column on the right lists newly updated or added content.

If you have any questions or comments about the Project or the website please email to info@whitehallvilla.co.uk.

The Whitehall project is associated with CLASP (Community Landscape & Archaeology Survey Project) CLICK HERE for the CLASP website