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quote: Originally posted by Valerie:
archaeologist to take part in 'cos its taking place inside the church building ..... no rain no wind!
Not always the case. Stuart Blaylock of Exeter Archaeology undertook recording of a Devon Church and had to go out into the snow, from time to time, to get warm. |
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Also meant to say (blooming lack of edit facility!) it is being reported as the biggest dig anywhere in Scotland at the present time.
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Manor Cottage dig unearths mystery
A WINDOW into Southwick's past was opened at a presentation showcasing finds at Manor Cottage.
Pottery from the 16th century, Chinese porcelain fragments and pieces of clay pipe were among items uncovered in an archaeological dig at the site, in Southwick Street, Southwick, last August.
A Spanish coin, minted between 1680 and 1707, was also dug up in the excavations.
Nigel Divers, Southwick Society secretary, admitted experts were unable to establish how it got there.
"We have absolutely no idea what it is doing in Southwick. We don't even know when it arrived here. It could have been a seaman," he said.
"Equally, that part of history is when we took Gibraltar from the Spanish. Was it a local man who picked it up out there? You can romanticise as much as you like.
"It is a real mystery piece, but it shows people who lived here had connections of some sort."
For full story and pictures, see the Shoreham Herald dated Thursday, July 13.
17 July 2006
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THE haunt of witches for centuries, and a site shrouded in mystery, the Rollright Stones near Long Compton may have some secrets revealed this weekend and next weekend as part of National Archaeology Week.
Visitors on both weekends will enjoy free admission and guided tours by archaeologists including the chairman of the Rollright Trust, George Lambick, formerly director of the Council of British Archaeology, and Dr Gill Hey of Oxford Archaeology.
This weekend will also include a storyteller and next weekend a dowser will be giving lessons in the ancient art of water divining.
"This is an ideal opportunity to find out about the history and legends of one of Oxfordshire's oldest monuments," said trust spokesman Dohn Prout.
The stones, including a stone circle, a group of stones and a solitary rock, are said to date back to 3,800BC, making them older than Stonehenge.
Legend has it that a witch turned a king and his men into the stones and herself into a tree, and the site has been a meeting place for witches since the Tudor times.
Visitors will also be allowed to see the ghostly images on an inside wall of the site hut that left by a fire earlier this year.
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Revised plan submitted for controversial quarry By Brian Redhead QUARRY company Tarmac has submitted a revised planning application for sand and gravel extraction at a controversial site in North Yorkshire. Local campaigners, concerned about the potential effect on archaeological remains, are opposing the plans for land at Ladybridge Farm, near the Thornborough henges ancient monument site between Bedale and Ripon. Tarmac believed the development would safeguard the livelihoods of workers and hauliers at the nearby Nosterfield quarry, where supplies will soon be exhausted. continued... The company's first application for Ladybridge was rejected by county councillors in February, but Tarmac has now submitted a new application which eliminates a contentious area of the site. It reduces the proposed area of extraction from 45 to 31 hectares and avoids the south western section of Ladybridge to address concerns raised in February by the county council and English Heritage about its archaeological value. Tarmac estates manager Bob Nicholson said: ''We believe this revised application serves to demonstrate that we understand the concerns of the community, the county council and English Heritage.'' http://www.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/display.var.840249....roversial_quarry.php |
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REVEALED: VILLAGE RULED BY ROMANS
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09:10 - 26 July 2006
It Has been hidden from view for 2,000 years.
But now light has been shed on the remains of an ancient settlement in the East Riding.
A village, thought to date from Roman times, has been unearthed by contractors working on a water pipeline.
The settlement, which would have been occupied between 100AD and 200AD, has been unearthed in the village of Haisthorpe, near Burton Agnes.
Archaeologists have described the finds as significant and will be studying them for an insight into what life was like for ancient Britons under the rule of Rome.
The finds are thought to have lain undiscovered for so long because the fields, just off the A614 between Haisthorpe and Thornholme, to the south-west of Bridlington, have never been ploughed.
The village was discovered 2ft below the surface of pasture land by contractors laying a pipe for a £12m Yorkshire Water clean water project.
Site director Ben Westwood, from Northern Archaeological Associates, said the village gave a good insight into ancient life.
He said: "This was an unexpected find that we came across as the machines removed the top soil.
"The site has been quite well preserved and shows a farmstead where British people would have been living and working during the 2nd century."
Mr Westwood said up to 20 archaeologists had been called in to work on the site.
"The site is very useful in terms of building up a picture of a settlement in this area," he said.
"Everything we have found will be cleaned and reported and sent to specialists.
"All the information will be put together into a report for East Riding Council." Mr Westwood said the finds would be made available for display if a group wanted to create an exhibition.
The public information day will be held tomorrow in Wawne Village Hall in Main Street from 2.30pm.
More than 100 sites of interest were discovered, with the artefacts dating back to the early Bronze Age.
My threads are being deleted, I know not why, so I've put this on as a copy and paste....
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Raising the stakes TARMAC Northern's submission of a revised planning application to quarry land near the Thornborough henges ancient monument site increases the stakes in this long-running saga. The company has already appealed against North Yorkshire County Council's refusal of the original application to quarry 45 hectares. This new application - for 31 hectares - is Tarmac's tactical fall-back position. If it can't have the whole site, seeking permission for a lesser area may be a means of dealing with some of the conservation/archaeological objections. It perhaps is also a signal of the company's intention to take this battle to the next stage - a legal one - should the Government planning inspector dismiss Tarmac's appeal. The pressure is unquestionably stepped up on the county council, which will in due course decide whether to grant the revised application permission. That process will once more concentrate minds on the status of the setting of the henges and to what extent it is critical to the henge complex as a whole. Does the removal of 14 hectares of farmland closest to one of the three henges make a difference to archaeologists who say the monuments are more than the three circular earthworks and that the surrounding landscape is just as important if we are to understand their significance? Our understanding of the concerns of the county council and English Heritage is that those 14 hectares will not make a great deal of difference to the conservation argument which, taken to its limit, suggests that an even wider area, including the Devil's Arrows at Boroughbridge, is a vast landscape of prehistoric significance. It is a fiendishly difficult issue for the county council to deal with. The conservationists have already demonstrated how important it is in their eyes. The issue's importance to Tarmac Northern is now also underlined. 12:20pm Friday 28th July 2006 http://www.darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk/commentopin...ising_the_stakes.php |
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The council may not be allowed to determine the new application. There may be a further appeal or it can be called-in and linked with the earlier appeal.
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Second unopened tomb in the Valley of the Kings looks likely as archaeologists examine radar images. Zahi's agent is getting the tickets printed. The Archaeologist |
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Excavation team prepares for Stonehenge dig. Link |
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Butcher faces charge over Roman relic found in a farmer’s field
by Jade Wright and Joe Whitworth
AN Oldham butcher faces charges of perjury and conspiracy after he passed off a Roman ring bought on ebay as a spectacular archaeological find.
Colin Hilton, of Farm Road, Limehurst Village, told a treasure trove inquest that he found the gold filigree Roman ring while metal detecting at a local farm last November.
But during the inquest it became clear the 2,000-year-old ring, believed to be worth thousands of pounds, had been bought from ebay a week earlier for £42.
In the first case of its kind in British legal history, Oldham Coroner Simon Nelson immediately adjourned the inquest and called in the police.
“I am duty bound to refer this matter to Greater Manchester Police,” he said.
“There is reason to believe conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and perjury under oath has taken place.”
A treasure trove inquest is a rare investigation carried out by the district coroner when gold and silver objects over 300 years old are found.
Under the Treasure Act 1996, all finders of such items have a legal obligation to report them to the coroner within 14 days.
Mr Nelson said: “These type of inquiries are extremely rare. Most coroners do not have cause for a treasure inquiry in the course of their career.”
Describing the police involvement he said: “This is the first instance of this ever happening nationwide.
“The Treasure Act carries a maximum sentence of five months imprisonment or a £3,000 fine.
“An act of perjury or conspiracy to pervert the course of justice is a far more serious offence.”
The ring is now in the care of the British Museum.
A spokesman for the museum said: “Some people believe that by reporting an artefact to the coroner as a newly discovered find they will increase its value.”
After the inquest Colin Hilton said: “I have been shafted.
“I believe that a certain person bought that ring on my friend’s ebay account and buried it on the farm knowing we would go there with the metal detectors.
“I wish I’d never gone out that day.”
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From the Northern Echo
A 3,000-year-old hoard of treasure unearthed
3,000-year-old hoard of treasure unearthed
A HOARD of 3,000-year-old buried treasure unearthed in the region has provided an intriguing insight into the area's past.
Three amber beads, two bronze rings, a bugle-shaped fitting and a fragment of a spearhead, found six inches below ground in a field near Sedgefield, County Durham, are thought to have been part of an ancient burial ceremony.
Robert Collins, from the Museum of Antiquities, in Newcastle, said the items, thought to date from between 1000 and 800BC, also suggest there were fixed settlements in the Sedgefield area.
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He said: "This find helps to fill in some of the gaps in our knowledge of what was happening in County Durham during that period.
"Sedgefield does seem to have been an area which was occupied. Apart from this find, we have also found items from the Neolithic period (4000-2000BC) in the area."
The hoard was discovered in August last year by Susan Lister and Philip Townsend, two members of Quaker Acres, a metal detector group, which was scouring the area in search of treasure.
Mrs Lister, 51, of Wolsingham, County Durham, described the moment she found the treasure. "I got a signal on my metal detector and when I dug down I was elated. I knew it was something of interest when everyone started gathering round to look. It was all stuck together with hard clay, but I could tell it was old."
The discovery has just come to light because the courts must now decide whether the item should be legally classified as treasure. The items are being stored in the British Museum, London.
However, the Bowes Museum, in Barnard Castle, County Durham, is thought to be interested in buying them and if the courts decide the items are treasure, they could be returned to the region.
Mr Collins said: "There is not a lot of treasure found in the North statistically, so it's nice to have this find."
The hoard promises to further boost a growing interest in local history in the area. Since Channel 4's Time Team explored Sedgefield's soil back in 2002, Durham University has kept up an interest and earlier this summer local people were invited to take part in the Sedgefield Community Archaeology Project, a two-week-long dig searching for Roman settlements.
Alison Hodgson, of the Sedgefield Local History group, said: "I think it's great that people are taking a greater interest. When people are engaged with something, they're less likely to be involved in destroying it."
The hearing to decide whether the hoard should be classified as treasure will be heard at Chester-le-Street Magistrates' Court, on Tuesday, September 12, at 2.50pm.
9:30am today
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