Fieldwork in the East Midlands Covering five counties, the CBA East Midlands group is in a great position to bring the activities of other archaeological groups in its area to a wider audience. Whether you’re recording gravestones, fieldwalking, digging test pits or running large excavations, this page is available to publicise your work. We welcome anything from a single paragraph of text to a fully illustrated report — please send any material for inclusion to david.cba-em@virginmedia.com Burrough Hill Iron Age hill fort The University of Leicester and ULAS are running a joint training and research excavation at Burrough Hill hillfort near Melton Mowbrary, the finest example of a large univallate (single banked) hillfort in Leicestershire. See the University’s website for the latest news.   Council for British Archaeology — East Midlands Group: Archaeology for all  Charity No. 1082287 Are you looking for the main CBA national site? Click here for archaeologyuk.org The Roots and Development of Bingham, Nottinghamshire Bingham Heritage Trails Association is carrying out a three-year project examining the historic core of Bingham, and how it developed through time. This follows on from, and supplements, a successful field-walking project which examined all 2,000 acres of arable land in the parish. The current project aims to dig more than     holes, pits, drains and floors that date 60 1m-square archaeological test pits in     back to medieval times in some cases. All central Bingham. 45 pits have already been     the finds were entered on a database over dug, with another 20 planned for this year.     the winter, and plotting of their distribution More than 7,700 sherds of pottery and     suggests that a previously unidentified other finds have been found from the     Roman settlement existed in the centre of Roman period onwards, as well as post-     Bingham, near the church. Most of the pottery has now been identified by specialists. The medieval assemblage gives a good indication of where people were living in Bingham immediately after the Norman Conquest. It looks as though there are also some Anglo Saxon sherds - did the Roman settlement continue into Anglo-Saxon times? The animal bones, bricks and tiles are currently being studied, and these will provide further information about how people lived in historic Bingham. There is still plenty of work left to do unravelling the centuries of history that lie just below the surface of people's gardens. Guidelines for setting up fieldwork projects, based on BHTA’s experience over the last decade, can be found here. The first two test pits are begun, under the watchful eye of staff from Trent and Peak Archaeology East Midlands Made with Xara Web Designer Council for British Archaeology 18th/19th-century drain made from medieval stone roof tiles Post-hole at the corner of a stone floor to a 17th-century timber building Stone foundation layer to the 13th-century tiled floor of a manor house Gazebos allowed the digging to carry on come rain or sunshine — mostly rain in summer 2012!