Seeking Roman Calne Family Day

Family Day at Calne Heritage Centre tomorrow! Have a go a making your own mosaic, and many more activities!

Seeking Roman Calne exhibition opens!

The Seeking Roman Calne exhibition is now open at Calne Heritage Centre, and runs until Saturday 1st August. The exhibition features local finds from the collections of Wiltshire Heritage Museum, and the opportunity to handle some real Roman finds.

Seeking Roman Calne talk - Sam Moorhead ill

Unfortunately Sam Moorhead of the British Museum is ill, and so will be unable to give the scheduled talk tonight about Roman coin hoards in North Wiltshire. The evening will go ahead, with the official opening of the exhibition and a talk by David Dawson about teh Seeking Roman Calne project.

Seeking Roman Calne - the Hunt is ON

The Archaeology Field Group are just starting a new project to identify the location of the settlement thought to lie under modern-day Calne. the first stage is to ask people to bring pottery from their back gardens to be identified, and then we go form there.

The project was launched at the Calne 'Party in the Park', with over 150 people visitng the Museum's sand, many attracted by the chance to strike a Roman coin. One person was so interested, he came back with a small 9ct gold disk, which we both had a go at striking. Gold is, however, rather harder than the alloy we use! No wonder the romans used full-scale sledge-hammers to strike coins ...