Looking ahead In March 2006 there will be a Day School at Dorset County Museum in Dorchester, Dorset. The Day is titled Pits, Pots and People – 10,000 years of archaeology at Bestwall Quarry, Wareham. More details...

Museum display board If you're in Wareham this summer, call in at the local Museum or Tourist Information Office and pick up a copy of our glossy colour booklet. There is also a large display board in the museum.

June 2005 All excavation work has now been completed, after more than twelve years of dedicated digging. Post excavation work (including preparation of the monograph) is already well underway. There is still much exciting information from the past year or so due to be added to this Web site, as well as some of the results of all the post-ex analysis. Thanks to David Parry for ongoing work to streamline and update www.bestwall.co.uk.

An independent video/DVD was released mid-2005 that tells the story of the River Frome. It is Part 2 of Dorset - Along the Frome - Dorchester to Poole Harbour, presented and narrated by Bonny Sartin and produced by Classic Media Facilities.

Bestwall Quarry's archaeology has also been filmed for a slot in a Bristol based arts programme, 24/7.

Bestwall Quarry was featured in an archaeology series shown on TV in the Autumn of 2002 more...