Chronicle (1966)

Digging for Rescue: The Chronicle Award for Archaeology 1979 (1979x12)

: 18, 1979

The study of the pill-box defences of England, built in the early 1940s for 'Dad's Army', is one of six projects chosen as finalists in this year's Chronicle Archaeology Awards. Other projects include the excavation of a Romano-British cemetery near Dunstable with its detailed analysis of skeletons and diseases; the clearing of the complex of caves that run under the streets of Nottingham; the unearthing of a Roman settlement at Kingscote in Gloucestershire; a study of the architectural history of farmhouses just north of Bristol; and a prehistoric settlement in the Test Valley in Hampshire. During the summer, all the finalists were visited by a Chronicle film team and a panel of 'Rescue' judges. Magnus Magnusson announces the judges' verdict and presents the prizes at a special ceremony in the British Museum.