About the Foresters’ Forest

The Foresters’ Forest project

The Foresters’ Forest Programme was a National Lottery Heritage Fund Landscape Partnership programme, formed from an association of partner organisations and local community groups within the Forest of Dean. It ran from 2016-22 with the aim to raise awareness and participation in the built, natural and cultural heritage that makes the Forest special.

The Programme was based around five themes:

  • Our Stronghold for Nature
  • Exploring our Forest
  • Revealing our Past
  • Celebrating our Forest
  • Securing our Future

Each of these themes had a range of projects that uncovered, shared and celebrated the heritage of Forest of Dean. In total there were 38 projects and this website highlights the key results of the Buried Heritage project  – part of the projects Revealing our past theme.
Links to information about some of the other projects is available on the links page.

Forest of Dean Archaeology project

Buried Heritage in the Forest of Dean

An overview of the sites excavated in the F-o-D
A great example of the built heritage just below your feet in the F-o-D
Finds (or Material Culture) found in the area covered by the F-o-D indicate occupation back to the Neolithic through the Romano-British to the modern day.
The LiDAR surveys techniques and results. Where did the volunteers know where to dig? 
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