To celebrate the Festival of Archaeology, Bourne Hall Museum has two talks about local archaeological discoveries. One is Church Meadow near the village and close to Stane Street. The other is the former Nescot site. In 2015 archaeologists working on the former Nescot College Animal Husbandry Site, Ewell uncovered a 4-meter-deep mine shaft filled with a series of artifacts including coins, a knife, a brooch a gaming token and perhaps most impressively, 11,422 bones from a mix of humans and animals. While such ritual shafts are well attested in Ewell, the Nescot shaft is unique in the sheer scale of material it produced, and due to its excavation using modern archaeological methods, which allowed the site formation processes to be reconstructed in detail. As such it offers a fascinating view into Romano-British ritual practices, showing how local Iron Age practices merged with Roman sensibilities to form something distinctly Romano-British in the years immediately following the conquest. The presentation will contain images of human remains. Upcoming events | Bourne Hall