Take a stroll back through time with archaeologist Andrea Frankham-Hughes and dive into Portland’s deep history to discover the hidden stories of the north of the Island in prehistoric times.
In the mid-1800s the areas around the High Angle Batteries were intensively quarried, revealing large Iron Age and Romano British (800 BCE to 410 CE) cemeteries that are now mostly forgotten. The areas around the Verne and the Grove were rich in burials and significant artefacts, from the enigmatic beehive huts to Iron Age collars, mirrors, coins and ingots. These along with earlier lost barrows and stone circles reveal the fascinating lives and deaths of the people of the Island who came before us.
Andrea has been exploring prehistoric Portland for almost a decade and is currently undertaking her postgraduate MRes at Bournemouth University looking at the Iron Age and Romano British Durotrigian Burials from the playing fields at Weston.
