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‘Digging The Bigger Picture’ Symposium – Introduction with Phyllida Shelley

Art

‘Digging The Bigger Picture’ Symposium – Introduction with Phyllida Shelley

‘Surface, Light and Time: Mark-making & Creative Practice in Art & Archaeology’ – Dr Antonia Thomas

Art

‘Surface, Light and Time: Mark-making & Creative Practice in Art & Archaeology’ – Dr Antonia Thomas

‘Emergency! Drawing and Glacial Archaeology’ – Professor Sarah Casey

Art

‘Emergency! Drawing and Glacial Archaeology’ – Professor Sarah Casey

Digging the Bigger Picture – Panel discussion – chaired by Keith Abbott

Art

Digging the Bigger Picture – Panel discussion – chaired by Keith Abbott

Cookham Dig 2025 – End of This Year’s Dig

Cookham Dig 2025 – End of This Year’s Dig

The Leat continued…

The Leat continued…

Pile from the Leat

Pile from the Leat

Cookham Abbey – Golden Hour

Cookham Abbey – Golden Hour

Tours, a Blessing, a Quiz and more…

Community Engagement

Tours, a Blessing, a Quiz and more…

An Amazing Bone Comb

An Amazing Bone Comb

Cookham Dig 2025 Week 3 Update

Cookham Dig 2025 Week 3 Update

Sharing the Dig

Community Engagement

Sharing the Dig

Bone Combs

Bone Combs

Leat

Leat

Week 2 Update Video

Week 2 Update Video

Cow Pelvis

Cow Pelvis

Chaff-tempered Ware

Chaff-tempered Ware

Cookham Abbey Dig 2025 – Week 1

Cookham Abbey Dig 2025 – Week 1

Reaching the Next Generation

Community Engagement

Reaching the Next Generation

Domestic Building

Domestic Building

Buy a Cookham Abbey Dig T-Shirt

Buy a Cookham Abbey Dig T-Shirt

Cookham Abbey Site Tours

Cookham Abbey Site Tours

Creative Art Archaeology Workshop

Community Engagement

Creative Art Archaeology Workshop

Digging the Bigger Picture: The Friends of Cookham Abbey Art and Archaeology Symposium

Digging the Bigger Picture: The Friends of Cookham Abbey Art and Archaeology Symposium

Down to Earth: Creative Workshops at Cookham Dig 2025

Down to Earth: Creative Workshops at Cookham Dig 2025

Discover Where Art Meets Archaeology

Discover Where Art Meets Archaeology

Cookham Dig 2025 Preview

Cookham Dig 2025 Preview

Samian Ware Pot Fragment

Samian Ware Pot Fragment

Well with oak lining

Well with oak lining

Thames at Cookham

Thames at Cookham

Anglo-Saxon Runic Script Found

Anglo-Saxon Runic Script Found

Early medieval people in Cookham: their stories

Early medieval people in Cookham: their stories

2024 Cookham Dig Week 1: Update

2024 Cookham Dig Week 1: Update

Small items are clues to daily life in the monastery

Small items are clues to daily life in the monastery

2023 Field season

2023 Field season

Gallery of Finds

Gallery of Finds

2022 excavations

2022 excavations

Artist in Residence Phyllida Shelley

Artist in Residence Phyllida Shelley

Cookham’s Queen, Cynethryth

Cookham’s Queen, Cynethryth

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