NEW digs are starting on Petersfield Heath, with two barrows being excavated.

These are on the east side of the Heath, and the work, which is part on the on-going People of the Heath project, will take place from April 26 to May 14.

Every day of the dig there will be a 4.30pm tour of the excavations open to anyone who is interested. These are led by the project’s co-director George Anelay. Meet opposite the end of Rival Moor Road where there will be a blue steel store.

There is also a free talk in the Rose Room at Petersfield’s Festival Hall on Thurdsday, April 28, at 7pm.

Entitled ‘Peopling the Heath: Petersfield Heath and the Barrowscapes of the Rother Valley’, this marks a half-way point in the project.

It provides the opportunity to find out about its various strands – geophysics, excavations, other survey work, documentary work and palaeoenvironmental studies.

By project co-director Stuart Needham, it will concentrate not only on some of the exciting results from Petersfield Heath itself, but will put the cemetery into a broader context.

Although the talk is free, registration is essential. E-mail Rosalind Norrell at Petersfield Museum on [email protected] or call her on 01730 260756.