IntroductionCovington is a very small village on the juncture of Huntingdonshire, Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire. The terrain is gently undulating and the area is distinctly rural. Covington History Group exists to investigate, through any means possible, what it was like to live in the village in the past.
In 2011, we were the first group to sign up to Jigsaw (Cambridgeshire) and in 2014 we obtained a lottery grant for our archaeology. There are several Iron Age farms in the parish, a rural Roman settlement, evidence of Saxon activity, and strong clues to the layout of the medieval village. In the five years of the Jigsaw project, we learnt to carry out magnetometry surveys, fieldwalk, and excavate either with testpits or machining. With help from professional archaeologists, we have put together a pottery reference collection for Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and Medieval finds from Covington and we are working on a reference collection for animal bones.
Our website has details of what we have been up to. Reports on further excavations on our Iron Age/Roman site and all our work on the Saxon site are in preparation.
