Bread Ovens Unearthed at England’s Goldingham Hall
Friday, June 13, 2014
BULMER, ENGLAND—Volunteers assisted archaeologists from Access Cambridge Archaeology with an excavation at Goldingham Hall, where features had been located last year during geophysical surveys. The group uncovered a large complex dating to the late Anglo-Saxon or Norman period that contained a food preparation area with six bread ovens, and a series of ditches filled with burnt pottery and bones. “Many finds were discovered, including an in situ medieval arrowhead, and most incredibly, a ‘flint face’ found at the bottom of the post hole of the structure. We are wondering if this could have been a good-luck charm placed in the foundations of the building,” Nick Moore, a committee member of Stour Valley Community Archaeology, told EADT 24.
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