Battle of San Pietro Project
A WWII Conflict Archaeology Investigation

First Season took place 1st-14th May 2019.
NOW RECRUITING for Second Season, September 16th - 27th 2024.
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A programme of landscape reconnaissance, survey, and recording, supplemented with historical research and oral history, to catalogue all visible archaeological features relevant to the Battle of Cassino between October 1943 and May 1944 

A New Kind Of Expedition for Volunteer Enthusiasts

Join us as a member of an archaeological team exploring and recording this iconic battle from WW2. Become one of the select few to experience this ground-breaking opportunity to experience conflict archaeology first-hand.

Between October 1943 and May 1944, some of the most ferocious fighting of the Second World War took place along about 50 miles of front-line between the west coast of Italy and the mountains inland of the Cassino-Mignano extents of Autostrada 1 and Route 6. The battlefield comprised the western ends of the Winter and Gustav Lines, the latter anchored on Monte Cassino itself, these being two successive German defensive lines constructed after the Allied landings at Salerno in September 1943.

The area contains thousands of features – stone sangars, concrete emplacements, bunkers, pillboxes, fortified buildings, observation posts, cave shelters, deep dugouts, communication tunnels, etc – relating to the battle. We have been given a unique opportunity to study these features and record them for the first time using modern conflict archaeology techniques.


First Season 1st-14th May 2019.
Second Season September 2024 recruiting now. 
​For more information, please:
Click here for project web site  Click here to express interest by email

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