Usually, meetings will be held on the first Tuesday of each month - though none in January or August
Norman Redhead
Norman is an eminent archaeologist and recently retired Greater Manchester County Archaeologist. He is still involved in many prestigious projects, including Castleshaw Roman Fort in nearby Delph, Saddleworth
A presentation by Steve Abbot
Steve has had a lifelong connection with Avro, working there and setting up the Avro Heritage Museum based at Woodford. This is an amazing museum all about the Avro company and the history of aircraft in the area and well worth a visit.
A presentation by Keri and Terry Brown
A joint talk about their project in Northern Apulia, Southern Italy. The analysis of the data is finished...
A quick AGM (election or reelection of the committee) followed by a social evening with food, drink, quizzes and raffle
...unless you'd like to come and help or just visit the site at Shiloh Road, where we've made some good progress and some interesting finds.
Joanne Blunt
Joanne is the Arts, Culture and Heritage Officer for High Peak Borough Council and Staffordshire Moorlands District Council, and will talk about the future of heritage in the High Peak.
Steve Abbot
Steve Abbot, the archivist at the Avro Museum in Woodford, Stockport has kindly agreed to give us a talk about the history of the Avro company, their museum at Woodford and the development of aircraft over the last 100 years.
Kevin Wright
A presentation about the fantastic prehistoric Grange Farm site at Mottram. Kevin will bring along and discuss some of the finds and also show a 3D photogrammetry projection of a feature in their current trench
Malcolm Maddock
A previously unknown cairn in Luzley, a hamlet between Ashton-under-Lyne and Mossley. The discovery of a bronze age funerary urn and subsequent lab work.
Quizzes! Raffles! A chocolate tombola!
Starting with a buffet at 7:30, for those who Sue has included on her list - Please contact Sue!
Ancient DNA is revolutionising our understanding of mummified remains from Egypt, Nubia, and Peru.
This presentation delves into the strengths and limitations of this area of research, including the need to find a balance between scientific curiosity and ethical considerations.
Konstantina Drosou is a principal investigator specialising in Evolutionary Genomics. She is programme director and lecturer in the MSc Biomedical Egyptology, based at the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology where she is the Director of the human ancient DNA clean room facilities.
at Charlesworth and Chisworth Cricket Club, 28 Marple Road (A626), SK13 5DA
Peter Noble
A talk about excavations carried out by GLAS on two newly discovered Bronze Age sites, as well as looking at the surrounding Bronze Age landscape and the sites found there.
at Charlesworth and Chisworth Cricket Club, 28 Marple Road (A626), SK13 5DA
at Charlesworth and Chisworth Village Club, 28 Marple Road (A626), SK13 5DA
Roger Hargreaves
The Joint Management Agreement with Historic England - a look at what that agreement says and what the implications are both for the fort and for GLAS
** This meeting was cancelled, and never actually happened! **
Dr. Seren Griffiths
Henge monuments - Ireland and Britain in the late fourth and third millennia BC, the time of Stonehenge
Roger, on the cremation burials at Mouselow Quarry, which have now been confirmed as early/middle Bronze Age in date.
Re-election of Officers & Committee, Finances, Subscriptions
Also a talk by Peter Noble on a recent dig of a Bronze age cairn, and a collection of flints and stones to be presented by Tim Campbell-Green
The committee would like to hear from members what they think the Society ought to be doing from here on.
at Charlesworth and Chisworth Village Club, 28 Marple Road (A626), SK13 5DA
led by Norman Redhead
meet at Castleshaw Centre Car park, Waterworks Rd, Delph OL3 5LZ
(This is the rescheduled event, postponed by a heat wave)
Guided by Roger Hargreaves
meet at Manor Park car park. Corn St, Glossop SK13 8QE
No meetings arranged yet
Pubs are not allowed to open yet, and various members are vulnerable. But when meetings are eventually arranged, we'll post something about them!
No meetings
Social distancing, while we all try to survive this pandemic.
Norman Redhead talk about the Castleshaw Hinterland Survey and lessons for Melandra
With Adam Thompson of Salford University
A discussion of the issues involved in mounting a bigger (possibly two-week) dig in 2020 in association with Salford CfAA, who would apply for Heritage lottery funding.
Members may express an interest in taking part and also say what times of year they might be available and for how long, also what they would want or be prepared to do.
As this will be a well-publicised community dig in a very accessible location, there will be a particular need for volunteers to engage with the public and maintain site safety and security.
A talk by Roger on workhouses, particularly the Glossop workhouse and it's first building, dating from 1835.
A.G.M. and discussion of recent test pitting near Melandra - what was found, what wasn't found, and what future plans might be made.
This month we've decided to have a social evening so we can have a chance to have a natter. There will also be informal presentations of Mike Brown's old slides of Melandra circa 1966, photo's from our recent test pitting exercise and our recent Lightside field walk.
chaired by Roger Hargreaves:
Dr. Abi Stone, Department of Geography, Manchester University
Dr. Abi Stone is a senior lecturer in physical geography and her research uses portable optically stimulated luminescence (pOSL) to understand and date soil sediments. This is a particularly useful dating method for sites where no organic remains survive for radiocarbon dating eg. where acidic soil conditions destroy bone (like here!).
Dr Anne Teather
Anne and her husband Professor Andrew Chamberlain presented details of their recent paper on the enigmatic Folkton Drums. These are three elaborately decorated chalk cylinders found with a child's burial within a barrow in Folkton, Yorkshire. It is believed they date from the late Neolithic/early Bronze Age. The purpose of these artefacts has always been up for discussion but it appears Anne may have found the answer.
Dr Kevin Coutes - Site Director at Poulton Research Project.
Poulton, in Cheshire West, is a multi-period site that could be one of the most amazing Iron Age sites in England, with finds from prehistoric, Roman and medieval times as well as numerous skeletons from around the site of a medieval chapel.
Roger Hargreaves
A brief summary of what's known about the site, the excavation history, a precis of GLAS's involvement, and an outline of current issues.
Roger Hargreaves
With a discussion of possible archaeological dig at Melandra
It was suggested that we should apply for permission to do some test-pitting on non-scheduled land - for which we'd need permission from the local council as landowner.
This may then be followed with a full archaeological dig in collaboration with Salford Archaeology, if grant applications can be successfully made.
Football (the World Cup) took over the pub!
Paul Beckmann
A talk on research into WW1 munitions production at Hawkshead Mill, Old Glossop.
Roger Hargreaves presentation
With particular emphasis on the heritage value of the Town Hall. The 180th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone is in June, and an announcement is due about replacement of the roof.
A walk, the primary aim of which is to look at what appears to be a prehistoric (probably IronAge/Romano-British) field system on the slopes of Brown Hill
Tim Campbell-Green will be talking about the Whitfield Cross
Rescheduled from February
Anne Teather talk on Prehistoric Orkney
No meeting
Cancelled due to snow
A walk, the primary aim of which is to look at what appears to be a prehistoric (probably IronAge/Romano-British) field system on the slopes of Brown Hill
A guided walk to see Mouselow and Hadfield village centre, and consider possible archaeological investigations.
A talk on "Tin Town", the temporary town created for the workforce on the Derwent dams, by John Searle.
