Burn of Catpund Catpund steatite quarry, just south of Cunningsburgh at HU 42382 26981, is the largest soapstone quarry in Britain and one of the largest in the world. The surrounding area contains evidence of use from the Neolithic, although this earlier quarrying was likely to have been destroyed by later quarrying. HES (1987 SM2541) describes how the ‘main period of exploitation appears to have been the Norse period, and Catpund was the main source of steatite west of the

HW4 © Helen Watkins On a low-lying peninsular overlooking Colgrave Sound (OS reference HU 55727 95720) stand the remains of one of...

New Hill Farmstead ​ My favourite place for archaeology is our own West Hill, just over the hill from Asta. There is everything there...

Anderson High School pupils recently participated in a two-day school activities event which focused on some of the wartime archaeology...