Teffont Archaeology Project’s team were very grateful to receive £4700 of funding from the Roman Research Trust towards their excavations in 2024, completing work on the central structure of Teffont’s Roman shrine complex. Excavations revealed a well-preserved multi-room shrine building, with excellent dating evidence and a series of structured animal bone group deposits beneath the floors. These mainly consisted of right forelimbs of young lambs and piglets, an intriguing glimpse into a clearly highly selective aspect of local religious practice. The shrine was well built in local and imported stone, with some sophisticated architectural elements bearing out findings from previous seasons of research. In 2024 at Teffont the project trained over 70 volunteer participants in excavation and post-excavation skills, and thanks to the NLHF also hosted seven positive action placements for early career archaeologists or volunteers from diverse or socio-economically underprivileged backgrounds. This work completes our final excavation at Teffont, and the site will be written up during 2025-2026 for publication shortly thereafter. See www.teffontarchaeology.com for more information.
