Osgodby Heritage & History Group

There were a few jobs to do this week, including finishing recording of trench 2, washing finds from last week and of course, opening another trench.  There were enough willing volunteers to undertake all the tasks and the weather was

Where did the week end go! Back on site on Tuesday and April showers did not stop the enthusiasm of the volunteers. It really is heartening to have the support of individuals from other local groups helping us., together with

Full of anticipation and excitement, the Osgodby Dig began on 5 April, with professional direction by Jon Kenny, Community Archaeologist. It was great to meet all the volunteers on site. The first job of the day was to put-up the

You can be excused for thinking we are about to give some Spring advice for your garden – but no – the Osgodby Dig is about to start! Jon Kenny our Community Archaeologist will be leading the dig in the

We were delighted to welcome back John Lee to give a talk on Using Maps for Local & Family History. It’s great that John lives locally and can relate his topics to the local area. We got off to a

It was our monthly meeting last night. We were pleased to welcome Janet and Jen to the meeting. We all introduced ourselves, and Jen had brought along a Guinness cake – which went down very well with the group! Mark

The village has been without one of it’s social hubs The Wadkin Arms since it closed in November 2020, and after much rumour and speculation, Simon the new landlord, had sent a social media message that the pipes had had

Mark, Jan and Shirley had a trip to The Waddy at lunchtime – and not a drop of alcohol passed their lips. They met with Simon, the new landlord of the Waddy, to chat through doing some building archaeology surveying.

We are looking forward to John Lee returning to Osgodby after his very interesting talk on Knights Templar way back in 2019 to a large audience. At that talk, there was “controversy” and lots of loud debate about if Knights

Today, Mark met a friend in the village with the intention of using her drone to take some aerial photos of Pear Tree Farm and the Wadkin Arms as part of the buildings archaeology survey, and the Village Institute. In