A quick root through our files at London Road uncovered a host of cuttings and photographs, mainly centred on the huge dig at Deansway in the late 1980s, but also stories on the various skulls, pipes, coins and so forth that tell the tale of the city down the centuries.
Even more impressive was the fact that archaeologist wasn’t misspelt once – although there was one “grizzly” find which slipped through the net.
Do you remember any of the stories featured here?
Perhaps you can tell us about something of interest you’ve found while digging in your garden, or maybe uncovered while having work done at your house?
You can let us know by contacting our community content editor at barry.kinghorn@newsquest.co.uk
Budding archaeologist Elizabeth Milton with part of a clay pipe in April 1994
Assistant field officer John Darlington with the lines of a Roman field uncovered during the Deansway dig
The grisly find comes from a story in May 1993 after a human skull thought to date from the Civil War was uncovered by a St John’s resident digging at the bottom of his garden The final stages of the Bull Entry dig in June 1989 as the Bryant Construction teams move in with their buildings on the right
September 1989 and the county’s new full-time archaeology officer was appointed. Malcolm Cooper had plenty of experience, having spent 18 months as assistant director of the massive Deansway dig
July 1995 and archaeologists were looking for Saxon remains rumoured to have been buried under Lyppard Grange, which was to be developed for a new pub
Ancient crop marks seen during an airborne survey carried out over Bredon Hill, near Pershore, in July 1996
Archaeologist Mike Glyde, centre, pictured in July 1996 with pilot Don Green, right, and Ashley Green after an aerial survey found a 1,500-year-old Roman road, burial mounds and other Iron Age landmarks
February 1985 and there archaeologists are hard at work under a former car park at the top of Dolday
May 1990 and workmen digging foundations for an extension at King’s School’s St Alban’s uncovered three skeletons – thought to be part of a Roman cemetery
October 1991 and the remains of a centuries-old medieval jetty were uncovered during excavation work in Hylton Road in preparation for construction of the Sabrina Bridge
Archaeologists working on the Deansway site held a novel “Dig Day” for charity just before Christmas 1988. It raised £200 and appeal co-ordinator Maxine Shields got carried away by Dave Cox as she picked up the cheque
April 1989 and archaeologist Christopher Curry is at work on the wall of the largest domestic medieval building ever unearthed in Worcester
January 1992 and archaeologists Robin Jackson and Jeremy Bretherton are busy recording the details of the 600-year-old cellar of a win merchant’s house uncovered during work on a site between the Countess of Huntingdon Hall and a new store being built next to the former police station
June 1989 and Tracey Fentrum has a huge task on her hands working her way through the thousands of finds from Deansway
April 1989 and Rebecca Goodier, left, and Victoria Anstey, of Alice Ottley Junior School, studying fruit and seed pips at a Commandery workshop marking Worcester’s 800th anniversary
March 1989 and Bishop Perowne pupils Ben Schiffmann, Marc Bullock, Amanda Hall and Sharon Meredith sift through some of the samples from the Deansway dig
March 1991 and a wall was blown down in Lansdowne Crescent, Rainbow Hill - revealing a 19th-century icehouse. This is the entrance
Andrew Smith, the son of the owner of the building Brian Smith, peers into the recently uncovered icehouse
The interior of the icehouse, which was a store for a fishmonger who traded from a shop in The Shambles during the 19th century
June 1991 and project officer Derek Hurst is pictured with some of the pottery found during excavations near Crookbarrow Hill - the remains of the lost medieval village of Crookbarrow
It’s July 1997 and student Helen Bleakman, left, and Dr Sally Crawford are at the site of a dig in the grounds of Worcester Cathedral, where archaeologists were hopeful they had uncovered parts of a pre-Norman structure
September 1991 and workmen uncovered a centuries-old wooden water-pipe, probably from the 18th century, during excavation on the Crowngate site near Angel Place
The skull of one of the nine skeletons found at the Deansway dig in a Roman cemetery dating back some 1,500 years
Ever wonder what a group of 1970s archaeologists looked like in their day clothes? Wonder no more as delegates of the British Archaeological Association held their annual conference at Worcester Cathedral
That’s a lot of earth that’s been shifted. Work goes on in, or rather under Deansway in October 1988
Bishop Perowne pupils Ben Schiffmann, left, Anony Gale and Marc Bullock try their hand at surveying at the Deansway dig in March 1989
It’s July 1990 and a mammoth’s leg bone and rib are prepared for cataloguing after being found at Strensham
It's February 1996 and the county's archaeologists had just completed their move from Cranham Drive Primary School to Tolladine Road. Finds officer Annette Hancocks is pictured with a Roman cooking pot found at Beckford
October 1994 and Emma Allies, aged seven, unearthed some 300-year-old clay pipes in her back garden in Bromwich Road, St John’s
Any excuse for a bit of dressing up - Roman soldiers marhc through Worcester High Street to publicise the Deansway dig
This horse skeletonwas uncovered in 1989. It was dated to about 100BC - the Iron Age
Right, lads, when we’ve done here, the car park’s next to come down... February 1985
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