The story so far…
Date Written
3 November 2025
What happens before a major road upgrade gets built? 🎥
Timestamps 🕛
00:00 – Introduction
00:23 – Initial evaluation
01:26 – Areas of interest
01:44 – What do we do?
01:55 – New discoveries everyday
02:44 – Prehistoric finds
03:38 – Conclusion
Join us on site along the Northern Trans-Pennine project in Cumbria🚗! Follow archaeologists as they uncover traces of ancient life hidden beneath the soil. In this short introduction, we explore what commercial archaeology looks like in action 🔎. Whether you’re an archaeology enthusiast or just curious about how we piece together the past, this video offers a glimpse behind the scenes of a real working dig.
In this video we highlight work carried out by OCA archaeologists from the initial evaluation phase in 2023 to current excavations continuing today. We explain how we find our areas of interest and show real-time discoveries being made including a 60 meter wide posthole structure and a Neolithic stone axe!