Field Archaeology Department
Earlier this month, our new President, Gregory Guida, and I attended the official launch of the Millennium: 2027 – European Year of the Normans in Caen, Normandy. The event provided an opportunity to meet European partners, discuss future collaborations, and prepare the Société Jersiaise’s contribution to the 2027 programme, including the organisation of a conference bringing together Norman learned societies in Jersey.
CBA Festival
After nearly two weeks of events, the CBA Festival of Archaeology 2026 is slowly coming to an end. Once again, we welcomed dozens and dozens of visitors to each of our events, many of which were fully booked on Eventbrite within a very short time. We are extremely pleased with the enthusiasm generated by this year’s programme (on the theme Archaeology and Nature) and hope that the events met the expectations of our members and the public.
Our final event will take place on Sunday 2 August and will offer visitors the opportunity to discover a behind-the-scenes work of a new archaeological project led by the UCL Institute of Archaeology and Archaeology South-East as part of their fieldschool. Commissioned by Jersey Heritage, with the Société Jersiaise as a project partner, this research aims to improve our understanding of Jersey’s prehistoric interior through an integrated programme of geophysical survey, systematic fieldwalking, targeted test-pitting and geoarchaeological sampling. The project will also investigate loess deposits, prehistoric activity, buried archaeological features and Holocene environmental sequences. At the request of the project team, the Field Archaeology Department, together with members of the Archaeology Section, undertook a geophysical survey that identified several magnetic anomalies likely to represent archaeological features. Following this first year of research, the project is expected to continue for a further two years.
Hervé Duval-Gatignol
