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On Wednesday 16th October we will meet indoors at Landguard Manor, Shanklin at 10:00 am. We will identify and catalogue the more recent finds from our dig and will also study the rim and base sherds to identify likely pot forms, e.g. cups/beakers, bowls, platters, etc.

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CHANGE OF PLAN After last night’s prolonged heavy rain, accessing and parking on the field at 9994 is too risky. We will not be digging today! Should you still wish to meet up, please head for the cafe at Isle of Wight Pearl. I shall be at the cafe for 10:00 am. This Wednesday 9

This Wednesday 2nd October we will meet to continue work with the excavation on field 9994. Meet on the field any time after 9:30 am. We will work through the morning and end around lunchtime.

The 2023 volume of Wight Studies, Volume 37, is now available to browse online. You can now download papers from this publication on our website, at no cost. A new page has been created which links to Volume 37 and will in future hold links to further volumes from our proceedings: Wig

Eleven members of IWNHAS joined Dave Fairlamb of Natural Links for an Ornithology Group outing to Mottistone Down on 15 September. Swallows and House Martins flew over the Jubilee car park as we assembled for the walk and small numbers of mainly Swallows continued to pass overhead fly

This Wednesday 18th September we will meet to continue work with the excavation on field 9994. There will be opportunities for excavation, finds processing, auger sampling, record note-taking, photography and discussion. Meet on the field any time after 9:30 am. We will work through t

This Wednesday 4th September we will meet at Brook Bay car park at 10:00 am. We will walk from the car park along the top of the cliff for a distance of about 1 mile east, past Sudmoor Point, to the south of the site of the building we found in field 9994. The cliff here is notable fo

This Wednesday 28th August we will meet at the Society HQ at Cowes at 10:00 am. We can continue sorting and identifying the finds from our field 9994 dig. It will also provide an opportunity to speculate on the structure and purpose of the building, and how it may be related to other