We’re thrilled to reveal we’ve been nominated for Current Archaeology’s Rescue Project of the Year 2026, for our project “Fields and farmsteads: organising the early Roman frontier region in South Yorkshire”.
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This nomination recognises our exciting archaeological work at Holme Hall Quarry for Breedon, which discusses the early Roman frontier region prior to the advance northwards to the Hadrianic frontier, revealing how the landscape in this area was transformed into extensive, carefully planned field systems and farmsteads during the early Roman period.
But was all this development thanks to the work of local Iron Age communities, or was it a land-grab by an occupying army?
The project appears in the July issue of Current Archaeology (see the link below), where you’ll find the mystery of these field systems becoming clearer thanks to our large-scale excavations. Indeed, investigations at Holme Hall Quarry have contributed significantly to our understanding of the area, thanks to an initial geophysical survey and fieldwalking, plus excavations in 2015 and 2019–2022, and then the post-excavation work. The findings have revealed a busy landscape of multi-period remains, from the earliest Mesolithic findings to detailed insights into how the early Roman frontier region in Britain was organised prior to the invasion of the territory of the Brigantes in c.AD 69.
For more details of this nomination head to https://archaeology.co.uk/vote. Voting is now open and available to everyone – so please click and vote for us!
The winners will then be announced at the Current Archaeology Live! 2026 conference on 28 February 2026. For further information: https://archaeology.co.uk/live.
Further information:
Read the full article about Holme Hall Quarry in Current Archaeology, issue 424, available here: Current Archaeology 424 – The Past
You can also read more about our work at Holme Hall Quarry here: Holme Hall Quarry – Archaeological Research Services Ltd
We have also produced an ebook which you can download here or you can buy a hard copy via print-on-demand through Archaeopress.