Brislington Community Archaeology Project
(BCAP)

Brislington's virtual museum arrives

Thanks to funding from Brislington Community Partnership, we are proud to announce the opening of our online museum.

If you have found an item in Brislington please contact us as we are keen to include as wide range of exhibits as possible, even broken ones. All we need are a photograph and a description - so you keep your finds. For more information about contributing follow this link.

There may not be many exhibits in our museum yet, but we will be offering many more in the near future, so check back often. In the meantime you can find more Brislington exhibits online at Bristol City Musuem - there are finds from the Roman Villa, and you can hunt for other aretfacts with their search facility.



Council unveils proposals for St Anne's holy well

The public consultation has begun on the future of Brislington's parks and other open spaces - including St Anne's Wood. Proposals include a new surround for the holy well with an ampitheatre built into the wooded hillside. More details here.



Excavation at Woodside Road

Our third archaeological excavation, in the back garden of a private house, has been completed successfully. There are some details here. The process of washing and cataloguing the finds is ongoing and members will be invited to join in. A full site report will be produced in due course.



Keynsham Heritage Trust

Several BCAP members attended a steering group meeting with the Keynsham Heritage Trust on May 24th. The Trust has an ambitious plan to make the finds from Keynsham Abbey, the palatial Roman villa at Durley Hill, and Roman settlement at Somerdale, more accessible. One way of achieving this is to produce an online museum; other ideas include a variety of community events.

We are keen to assist this project not least because as neighbours, we share more than a boundary - our stories are inextricably linked. For example, the Chapel of St Anne in the Wood was a 'daughter' of the Abbey, and Brislington villa was contemporaneous and probably closely allied with the Durley Hill villa. Anyone wishing to assist in this venture can do so through BCAP or directly by visiting the Trust's website.

We have also begun participating in the Bristol History & Archaeology Society's ongoing rescue dig at the Somerdale site on land occupied by the recently redundant Cadbury factory.

Latest Projects

St Anne in the Wood — updated July 2010

Great Western Railway — updated June 2010

Broomwell House excavation — updated March 2010

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Surrounding St Anne's well
Medieval Pilgrim's Walk.




Bedrock at 90cm
Woodside Road excavation.




Finds identification
Illustrated talk by Mike Ponsford.




Arnos Vale Cemetery
BCAP set out the stall.