Elvet Bridge, Durham - (part 1 of 6) - Underwater Archaeology

This is the first of three dives that I did at Elvet in May 2019. In this video I undertake an archaeological investigation of the submerged river bed, positioned just downstream of the twelfth century Elvet Bridge in Durham City, County Durham. This site has yielded a significant collection of typically small metal finds, the total number of which now exceeds 13,500 objects. This remarkable collection of objects has been described as 'a major research facility, probably the largest collection of late- and post-medieval finds in the North of England: a unique regional/national resource'.

In the next video, you we take a closer look at the objects that I found on this dive; then the process repeats for the next two dives. In total, there are six videos in this mini-series.

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