9th December 2014:

Oxford Archaeology North are very excited to announce that the Cumwhitton project, featured in the Current Archaeology article: Buried Vikings: excavating Cumwhitton’s cemetery has been nominated in the Rescue Dig of the Year category in the Archaeology Awards 2015.

Voting for the awards is now open, so we would love if you could head over to the Current Archaeology website and vote for us! You can do this by going to www.archaeology.co.uk/vote.

Voting will be open until early February, and the winners will be announced at the Current Archaeology Live! 2015 conference, held at the University of London's Senate House on 27th-28th February.

You can read more about the Cumwhitton Viking cemetery here and here, or visit the Oxbow bookshop to order your copy of the publication here.