We have just launched a significant and timely new community project, which will include surveys of surviving WW2 archaeology in the local area. READ MORE
Category: Long Melford Heritage Centre
Revealing our Iron Age and Roman Past
We are pleased to announce that we have been allocated a grant by Suffolk County Council’s Culture Project to conduct geophysical surveys in Long Melford. READ MORE
Bridge Street Dig 2025
Take a look at some of the photos and images from the Bridge Street Dig 2025 – media courtesy of Trevor Rix and University College London READ MORE
Junior Archaeology Project 2024
Long Melford Heritage Trust Shortlisted for the Archaeological Achievement Awards 2024 News Release 28 October 2024 Diggers for a Day! For one week last September over 70 children from Long Melford and Hartest C of E Primary Schools were given the opportunity to become archaeologists for a day through taking part in an ‘archaeological dig’ READ MORE
Achievement Award 2024
Long Melford Heritage Trust Shortlisted for the Archaeological Achievement Awards 2024 John Nunn and Kenneth Dodd (Heritage Trust lead archaeologist) with Professor Carenza Lewis. News Release 28 October 2024 Long Melford Heritage Trust Shortlisted for the Archaeological Achievement Awards 2024 LMHT is proud to announce that it has been shortlisted for the Council for British READ MORE
Long Melford School
Long Melford School This account of Long Melford Primary School is an attempt to show what it was like going to school in Melford during the late 1950s and early 1960s. It is chiefly based on reminiscences, both my own and those of other children who attended around the same time, along with some READ MORE
Remembering 1st Long Melford Girl Guides
1st Long Melford Girl Guides ‘Once a Guide Always a Guide’ Compiled by Sheila Cadge and Sarah Boosé, June 2023 Preface When I was tidying up in the loft a few months ago, I came across an old toffee tin containing all my Girl Guide badges and some other items. There weren’t any photos in READ MORE
Excavations June 2023
Archaeological Excavations June 2023 Our excavation team will start their season in June with further investigations in the area adjacent to the 2021 successful dig. With permission from the Hyde Parker Estate a number of areas will be examined after an initial geophysical survey is complete using the very latest equipment. It is hoped that READ MORE
Football Ground Dig 1.7.2022
Football Ground Dig 1 July 2022 The Long Melford Heritage Trusts Archaeological Unit have opened a new excavation in our continual investigation into the villages Iron Age and Roman past. Based on the findings from a test pit in 2013 and part of the Michael Woods T.V. Programme (The Story of England) also supported by READ MORE
Geophysical Survey
Geophysical Survey Cricket ground and Football pitches – 24 June 2022 The long awaited archaeological geophysical results have now arrived having been commissioned by the Long Melford Heritage Trust Archaeological Unit covering the areas of the cricket and football pitches. The survey was conducted by Phase Site Investigations Ltd. and took two days to complete. READ MORE