Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 5:51 pm    Post subject: WAS and where and when

Wigan Archaeological meeting Wednesday 7:30 Email for directions. This months talk Egypt .
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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 8:53 pm    Post subject:

You never know might be able to make this one – where is it held again?

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 5:33 pm    Post subject:

The Scout building, in Greenhough St Wigan .Its at the bottom of the hill near the traffic lights. So easy to find, even Humus found it!

Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 8:18 pm    Post subject:

Well nearly made it – got stuck in traffic jam and then diversions that it was past 8pm when I got to Wigan but did manage to find the building really easily – oh well maybe next time.

Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 8:20 pm    Post subject:

Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 8:56 pm    Post subject:

I know you don’t have to say anything – something was bound to go wrong

Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 7:30 am    Post subject:

Sue, you should have gone in anyway,

Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:37 pm    Post subject:

Have the whole room turn and look at me

Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 7:55 pm    Post subject:

I went in late at Warrington,and got the turned heads only to be followed 5 minutes later by a certain big scouser, but I’m too polite to name him.

Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 10:45 pm    Post subject:

put the steel tipped boots on and hold your head up high!!_________________

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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 9:14 pm    Post subject:

To be honest Apathamus the real reason I didn’t go in was my belly was by then screaming for something to eat so wandered across the traffic lights to Tesco’s

Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 9:32 pm    Post subject:

Thought I might post this here to any Wiganers out there – the January talk at the Warrington Archaeological & Historical Society on the 16th January is on recent Wigan excavations. It starts at 7.30 pm at the Friars Green Methodist Church on Cairo Street. If you want anymore info then please let me know.

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 9:39 pm    Post subject: Big Roman Dig – HELP!!!

I wonder if anybody can help with a little problem encountered on a BRD over the w/end.

I have been helping to find the Roman Road from Manchester to Ribchester but the trench is very confusing

The following photos show the current bottom of the main trench which is like a reddish shale type deposit. Now one opinion is it may be natural as there is apparently a quarry a mile away where there is a similar looking strata BUT the onsite archaeologist reckons it may possibly be a deposit from a mine that was located nearby. Can anybody enlighten us?? Has anybody come across a similar thing anywhere else?

The darker band is a vertical face. The trowel is for scale.

The following is a ‘flake’ of the deposit

I’m backing the Natural theory btw

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 9:45 pm    Post subject:

Could it be something to do with natural iron deposits, Phil?

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 9:55 pm    Post subject:

Looks very much like natural shale to me.

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 9:57 pm    Post subject:

That’s one of the reasons I think the Archy thinks it’s a deposit melter. Crushed ore or summat like that (Didn’t quite understand her logic ) It’s extremely flaky, brushing it could take a few layers off.

That’s what I thought Pam

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 11:03 pm    Post subject:

I’m with Pam on this one, and I would think the fact that it’s flaky backs up the shale theory.

But then, if you can’t grow spuds in it, what do I know?

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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 9:26 pm    Post subject:

I’m popping over to the site after work tomorrow so I’ll tell peeps what has been said.

Thanks all

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 6:06 pm    Post subject: TTFF trip – Rye and Winchelsea

Images here

http://ourpasthistory.com/TTF/album30

report by Ron Strutt

The day started rather cool and windy when we gathered outside the church of St Thomas the Martyr in Winchelsea. The church is a substantial building, despite that fact that all that remains now is the chancel, which explains its unusual square shape. The question is, how much of the church was actually built? The signs are that it was a bit more than actually survives, but by no means all, unless the major part of it was destroyed during one of the many French raids on the town in the 14th century. Some of the effigies in the church are thought to have been brought from the old church, which was destroyed, along with the rest of the original town of Winchelsea, in a storm in 1287. The vivid stained glass windows are fairly modern. The new town was built on a rocky hill on which stood the tiny village of Iham. The grid-like pattern of wide streets shows the planned nature of the new settlement. The buildings date from all periods from the 13th century Court Hall onwards. One common feature of many of the buildings are the barrel-vaulted undercrofts which were built to store the wine which was imported through the town. Our guide, Mike Greenhalgh of the Hastings Area Archaeological Research Group, had arranged for us to visit one of the smaller ones, which is now under the front garden of a modern house. The entrances to many of the others (about 50 survive) can be seen around the town We also visited the site of the long-vanished Saxon church of St Leonard’s, Iham, on the edge of the hill, just outside the present town. A windmill subsequently stood on the spot until it was blown down in the storm of 1987 After a visit to the Strand Gate, where Charlotte disturbed one of the residents.

we headed on to Rye for lunch in the Bell Inn … After lunch we headed off on a tour of Rye, losing various members of the party as we went From the end of Watchbell Street there is an excellent view over the Strand Quay towards the old sea cliffs. All this area was once sea. From there we visited the Ypres Tower, once one of the town’s most important defensive positions… ..and then via the church to the Landgate… and back via the old Augustinian monastery, with its windows bricked up, but the fine tracery preserved…….which concluded our all too brief, if chilly, visit. Many thanks to our guide Mike for giving up his time to treat us to an excellent tour and for his wealth of local knowledge Images here

http://ourpasthistory.com/TTF/album30

_________________Corinne Mills

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