Cambridge University’s archaeology department work with pupils aged 14-17 through their Higher Education Field Academy. We have been involved in their local test pit digs.

Much to the children’s interest, five pupils from Burnt Mill Academy, Davenant Foundation School, Bishop’s Stortford High School and Passmore Academy, along with their supervisor, dug a 1×1 metre test pit on the edge of our school field.

Over two days, they discovered; building materials from Roman and Medieval times, Victorian pieces of pottery and nails and, most interestingly, white flint from the prehistoric period, which had been heated to a high temperature and then used to heat water.