Bamburgh Research Project is an ongoing archaeological investigation of Bamburgh Castle and its environs. Dr. Brian Hope-Taylor, of Cambridge University, had excavated Bamburgh Castle in the 1960s and 1970s; however, his excavations were never fully published. Bamburgh Research Project has taken on the archaeological excavations of the Castle. The present work of the Bamburgh Research Project includes the re-excavation, interpretation, and eventual publication of Dr. Hope-Taylor’s former work, as part of a wider programme of new investigations.
The exciting discoveries made by Bamburgh Research Project include the foundations of the early medieval wooden palisade wall, a stone built guardhouse in the region of St Oswald’s Gate, and evidence of metal-working and industrial processes in the Anglo-Saxon citadel. Every summer, a team of professional and student archaeologists come to the Castle and excavate in the West Ward, allowing the public to see the archaeology of Bamburgh uncovered before their eyes.
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The Bowl Hole dig showing some of the graves in the process of being excavated. |
BRP at work. Trench 3 occupies the center and right of the foreground with trench 8 to the left |
