Diamond Jubilee celebrations

In honour of our Patron, for the year of Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee, we are hosting reports from local societies on our website, marking their proudest archaeological or historical achievements of the past 60 years. Her Majesty has been informed of this new web page in our congratulatory letter to her. In response, we have received a letter of thanks from Her Majesty.

The following submissions have been judged, and the winner for the best report is Cornwall Archaeological Society. Professor David Hinton presented the award to Hilary Orange from Cornwall Archaeological Society at Current Archaeology’s 2013 LIVE! Conference. Queen's Diamond Jubilee Award 2013: Image courtesy of Adam Stanford, Aerial-Cam.

A big thank you to all of the societies who participated. Entries will be kept online until early June 2013, the anniversary of HM The Queen’s Coronation.

Flint assemblage from West Nottinghamshire - Sherwood Archaeology Society

Community archaeology in the Yorkshire Dales - Ingleborough Archaeology Group

Rescue Dig at Yate Coal Pit - South Gloucestershire Mines Research Group

Discoveries at Waltham Abbey, Essex - Waltham Abbey Historical Society

Digging the Dead Donkey - Rochford Hundred Field Archaeology Group

Antiquarian Anglesey exhibition - Anglesey Antiquarian Society

The Pump Room at Walton - Priestley Field Archaeology Group

Shedding light on Bronze Age Exmoor - North Devon Archaeological Society

Leather shoes from a Staffordshire Roman well - Stoke-on-Trent Museum Archaeological Society

An Easter Conference on the Irish Sea - Cambrian Archaeological Association

The Last 60 Years - Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland

Carn Brea, Early Neolithic tor enclosure, c 3700 BC - Cornwall Archaeological Society