Community Engagement

We have show-cased our finds to thousands of members of the Public fully supporting  Developers and Utility Companies in their commitment to engage and connect local communities to heritage assets.

Here are a few examples:

Our first schools career fair of 2025

Our first schools career fair of 2025 was a great success, hosted at Magdalen College School, Brackley. The students were super and keen to handle the finds and try their hand at identification, definitely a few budding archaeologists there.

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Secondary school careers fair

As part of our commitment to Community Engagement, we were delighted to be recently invited to take part in a series of secondary school careers fairs within Milton Keynes. These showcased the various career sectors and allowed students to interact and gain an insight into potential career choices. The feedback was very positive, with several students eager to study archaeology at degree level.

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Student work placements 2024

Over the years, Border Archaeology has enjoyed offering work experience placements to secondary school students and this year has been a busy one. At our MK office, we have taken on 3 students, Jasmine a Year 10 student for a two-week placement and Callum and Caine, Year 12 students for one week each.

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Work Experience, Caine Mckee – Environmental Project

This project was conducted into the identification of seeds and snails acquired from a Flot sample to allow us to reasonably assume what the habitat of the area had looked, the ways it was used and who had used it.

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Work experience, Jasmine Harris – Osteology diary

Yesterday I was in the osteology department and I learned that in the past, decapitation was a very common form of death in war and not in war. I also learned that dying during childbirth was a very common death among women. Cancer was also common, while the rates were lower than they are now, there were still deaths from it

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18,800 artefacts discovered in Banbury, Oxfordshire

Border Archaeology and Orbit Homes recent event in Banbury Town Hall showcased and highlighted the discovery of 18,800 historical artefacts, after excavations at Calthorpe Gardens development uncovered archaeological evidence dating from the Prehistoric Mesolithic, Late bronze Age-Middle to Late Iron Age, and through to early Anglo-Saxon times.

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Bengeworth Academy Medieval Site Visit

As part of our outreach Community Engagement programme, we were delighted to welcome Year 1’s from Bengeworth CE Academy to site to learn more about medieval history.

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Archaeological “Walkaround” – Milton Keynes

“Rachel, Thanks to you and to the team for an enthralling tour yesterday, which Edward and I much appreciated. It’s such patient work and is revealing so much learning for us all.” Graham Benjamin, MK Resident

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Archaeological Evenings – Banwell, North Somerset

Due to such popular demand and fantastic feedback, we were asked to host this event for a second time to accommodate those local residents we were unable to seat on the first evening.

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Ready, Steady, Go!

"We all had an amazing time and cannot thank Border Archaeology enough for the amazing effort they put in to our visit.”

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Archaeological Evening – Sherston, Wiltshire

Sherston proved no exception to our ever-popular archaeological presentation evenings.

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Emma,James and Kim Bring the “Terrible Tudors” to Life in Leominster

“It was fascinating to find out about the history of our home’s site and get a glimpse into what was going on all those hundreds of years ago during the reigns of monarchs, such as Henry VIII. The kids were really excited, but I think our staff were just as keen to take a look!”

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Roman Interment, Leintwardine

“Thank you for a special and moving service. It is incredibly important for us villagers to be able to commemorate the earliest residents of Leintwardine.” “….very meaningful to link our lives across the years in this manner – thank you so much”

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