April 27 and 28 saw the first 2 days of 4 of test pit digs around Clare to help us learn how the town developed over the long term.

 

April 27 and 28 the digs were carried out by the Clare Middle School children, at 16 different sites around the town. The project is headed by Carenza Lewis of Access Cambridge Archeology, under the big Heritage Lottery funded project 'Managing a Masterpiece'. On May 7 and 8 there will be another 20 sites dug by the residents of Clare. All of these are in people's gardens. Some exciting finds have been dug up, and soon there will be a report of which parts of Clare were inhabited in different periods--pre-Norman, medieval, 19th century, etc. 
Some of the schoolchildren were featured on Look East news on April 27.