The South Trafford Archaeological Group are running a day school looking at medieval pottery from excavations in Trafford on Saturday 12 November 2022. The aim of the day is to compare the large amount of later medieval pottery from the Timperley Old Hall moated site with other sites of a similar a period from around…
The first in-person Greater Manchester Archaeology Day since 2019 will be held on Saturday 26th November 2022. The venue will again be the Peel Hall in the Peel Building, at the University of Salford, with GMAAS and Salford Archaeology hosting the day. Doors will open for registration at 09:30 ready for a start at 09:55.…
My garden in Sale, Trafford, a mere pocket handkerchief, is full of yellow, white and purple splashes – the snowdrops, crocuses, and daffodils that promise spring. The Timperley moated platform and its garden by the headquarters of my local archaeology society, in nearby Altrincham, is also showing the same signs of new growth and rebirth.…
This is the text of twitter paper I gave this month (November 2021) to the CHAT online conference. Their theme was movement under the tile of ‘Pilgrim CHAT’. There were lots of great presentations and online events through out November which can be explored via this link: https://chat-arch.org/ Now read on…. Since Industrial Archaeology emerged…
In September, October, and November 2021 I will be teaching three archaeology adult education classes. Firstly, in the latest series of my tours of the industrial archaeology remains of North West England, I’ll be talking about the Industrial Archaeology of Cumbria. This will be an online course run by the Workers Education Association. Secondly, I’ll…
This year’s Festival of Archaeology, run by the Council for British Archaeology, is well underway, with lots of exciting events happening around the country. As part of the festival’s theme of ‘Exploring Local Places’, CBA North West are inviting people to tell them about the wonderful archaeology, history, and heritage on our doorstep. CBA North…
Watch Hill castle is one of the oldest and most important archaeological sites in Trafford, being first protected as a scheduled monument in February 1978. It also has the honour of being the first archaeological site entered on the Greater Manchester Sites and Monuments Record, now the Greater Manchester Historic Environment Record, when this was…
How has the the COVID-19 pandemic affected archaeology in North West England? How much fieldwork has there been and where has this been undertaken since March 2020? If you follow CBA North West’s twitter account (@cbannorthwest) or their Facebook group (CBA Northwest) you will have seen that commercial archaeology digs have been taking place throughout…
Throughout the three lockdowns, ever since the 23rd March 2020, I have been photographing the late medieval moat at Timperley Old Hall, Altrincham, Greater Manchester. I have written about this site on a couple of occasions, ironically in February 2020 just at the COVID-19 crisis was starting to develop. Little did I know then that…
The COVID-19 pandemic may have reduced the amount of community archaeology and research excavations across Britain, but it has also provided an opportunity to complete the post-excavation side of many projects. One such is the hunt from the Great Keep at Hoghton Tower in Lancashire. Funded by a grant from the Castles Studies Trust, a…
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