Some local archaeologists said the museum never asked for help.

The site was abandoned after a seventh-century earthquake and rediscovered by local archaeologists in 1999.

Starting in the summer of 2006, Kenneth King, a local avocational archaeologist led a team of professional archaeologists to further investigate the battlefield.

In 2010, local archaeologists objected to Monmouthshire County Council because a trench had been dug along the site without proper consent.

In June 2009 St Mary's church was bought by a local archaeologist.

They alerted local archaeologists, who followed up with more systematic surveys over a site now estimated to be at least 35 acres.

Having found bits of flint, bone, and pottery, Foley contacted local archaeologists, who soon began a three-year excavation of the property.

Due to efforts of local archaeologists, we know that the size of the gord was almost 16 hectares, and it was surrounded by a rampart.

Bulldozers had crushed the burial crypts, and looters had combed through the site by the time a team of local archaeologists arrived.

John Parker, a local archaeologist, petitioned the federal government to add the island to the National Register of Historical Places.