This summer, a team of Archaeology and History students and staff from the University and the University of York are excavating at Basing House in Hampshire. The University is working alongside Hampshire County Council and the Basingstoke Archaeological and Historical Society to investigate the rich history of this important site.
The team will be on site from 21 July to 9 August 2014. Students are hosting Open Days and running family activity sessions, as well as giving trench tours. Basing House has a long and rich history, and the team is expecting to find information about the many phases of the site. The team will be looking for evidence of the importance of the house in the Tudor period when it was visited by many of our royalty, a relationship which resulted in the downfall of Basing House in the English Civil War.
You are warmly invited to come along to Basing House to see our students and volunteers at work and to take part in some of the many activities and events that we will be hosting. Dates and times can be found on our website: http://basinghouseproject.org/ and you can read more about the project on the BBC News website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-28551014
Photos of the dig as it happens are available on our Flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/basinghousecat