Dr Anne Teather
Anne will be presenting details of her 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.
