Godiva Festival 2016

Godiva Festival is my favourite event of our year. Unfortunately due to the Herbert Dig at the Lunt (watch out for future posts on this), I wasn't able to go on Saturday. However my team where there and reported a very busy day: lots of interest and lots of talking.


I made it on Sunday and what wonderful weather we had. Warm and sunny with a slight breeze.
Again, lots of interest and some valuable contacts made.


The children make me smile every year by identifying our dog skull to be that of a dinosaur! Bless them. They love trawling through our box of finds from "the back garden" and are awestruck when we show them Roman pottery that's older than their dad!

Some of the younger children showing an interest

 Our display covered 3 tables and included info about our Monday Field Walking Group and what they get up to. We also had on display artefacts from our recent HLF funded project - BAIT - which we did a couple of years ago. Finds consisted of Roman painted plaster, Samian Ware, Roman Grey ware and even Iron Age pottery. We also had replicas of some of what these pots would have looked like.

Some of the team - Barbara, Rita and Kevin

We have some fabulous opportunities coming up with a chance of doing some resistivity and digging, so if you're interested and would like more information, come and join us at www.covarch.co.uk
We have a great selection of lectures, starting in September, a 2 monthly bulletin and an opportunity to get involved for £15 (single) or £17 (family) for a year's subscription.