Rob Edwards

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Historic England’s Aerial Archaeology Mapping Explorer

Minshull Vernon Moat

Historic England have launched a new web site, the Aerial Archaeology Mapping Explorer, which makes the results of over 30 years’ of aerial photograph mapping projects undertaken by Historic England and its predecessor organisations since the late 1980s, as well as many partner organisations, freely available online. Hundreds of thousands of aerial photographs, ranging in …

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Roman Middlewich Excavation Open Day

Romano-British Pot

Join the staff of Oxford Archaeology North for a guided tour of the current excavations at Roman Middlewich. The site, which is located on the back plots of several Roman buildings, has so far uncovered evidence of Roman industrial activity, including including timber lined wells, salt tanks and kilns, as well as intact Roman pots …

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Barrow Old Hall and Twiss Green, Warrington

Book Cover

A report on the excavations carried out at the moated sites of Barrow Old Hall and Twiss Green in the 1980s is now available from Archaeopress Publishing. The report is available as in print and electronic formats.

BBC News: Chirk Castle dig tries to unearth origins of Offa’s Dyke

BBC News reports on a collaboration between to the Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust and the National Trust to investigate the origins of Offa’s Dyke. BBC News