PRESS RELEASE: Excavations uncovering the ‘birthplace of Sheffield’ win Current Archaeology’s prestigious Rescue Project of the Year Award for 2025.

Ashley Tuck (Wessex Archaeology, winner of Rescue Project of the Year 2025) [Photo credit Adam Stanford, www.adam-stanford.co.uk]A community-centred excavation revealing the long-hidden remains of Sheffield Castle has taken home a coveted prize at the annual Current Archaeology Awards.Long before the white heat of the Industrial Revolution forged Sheffield into the ‘City of Steel’, its landscape was dominated by an imposing Norman castle, built to guard a strategic double river-cross