Worcestershire Archaeology - Small Pits, Big Ideas

In 2022, The Badsey Society, participated in the "Small Pits, Big Ideas" project run by Worcester Archaeological Society.  In 2019 Worcester Archaeological Society had put together a bid to the National Lottery Heritage Fund to work in partnership with six villages. This bid was successful and was due to take place over the spring/early summer of 2020 but the outbreak in England of the worldwide pandemic forced the project into hibernation. It was later decided not to attempt a resumption in 2021 but to leave it another year so that there would be the maximum certainty that people of all ages and abilities could safely mix together over one weekend to carry out the excavation and preparation of finds.

Badsey was given the opportunity to take part in this archaeological survey around the village looking at sites in back gardens.  Known as the "Small Pits, Big Ideas" project, otherwise known locally as The Great Badsey Dig, it took place on the weekend of the 21st and 22nd May 2022 in 19 village gardens.