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Currently we are working on a number
of reports for field projects. The major
task of assessing all the information and reporting the
results of the building recording exercise at
Royal
Worcester Porcelain is now drawing to an end. We are
also working on our report of the excavation of the old
Crystal Rooms site in Hereford. |
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The Carbon 14 date from an oven base at Leintwardine in
north Herefordshire came out at
AD 10 to 120 (intercept date
of 60 AD) and evidence from the environmental samples
suggested that it was used for industrial rather than
domestic purposes. The date is extremely early for
activity associated with Branogenio (believed to be the
Roman name for Leintwardine) and indeed the earlier part
of the range predates Roman occupation of this area. |
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Sometimes new information
turns up about sites we did some
time ago. Our project at
the Hadley Porcelain Works in Worcester is such a case.
One of the sherds of pottery we found there, and made a
drawing of, has now been identified by
Peter Woodger, an expert who has written a book on the subject
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although we did not know that at the time. |
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Having carried out
building recording at Upper House Farm in
Eardisley,
Herefordshire we have now also finished monitoring some building
work there. Eardisley was a medieval borough. The
Eardisley History Group are currently researching the
history of the houses of the village and undertaking an
oral history project. |
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We have also finished monitoring work inside the
church at
Morville in Shropshire
and at at The
Mount,
Chepstow, Monmouthshire |
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A number of archaeologically-based
workshops and seminars are being run as part of the
Landscape Origins
of the Wye Valley project. |
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These will be about the
recognition of archaeological finds (animal, vegetable
and mineral) and are being held at Ross-on-Wye and Hereford.
The first one on prehistoric flint tools was held at
the Museum Resource centre, Hereford, on Saturday
January 26th. This has been followed by seminars on pottery
and environmental remains and a prehistoric flint tool workshop.
Seminars on post-medieval pottery and 'small finds' are
also being run. |
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We have now finished monitoring
groundwork at Lower Galdeford in
Ludlow, Shropshire,
again. We carried out an evaluation excavation
on this site in September. This had been the
site of Ludlow's 19th century livestock market, and
before that a house of Augustinian friars. |
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Last November we took into our direct
control our history of Hereford pages formerly hosted by hereford.uk.com, which is no longer active. We hope to
add more information to these pages in the future. |
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We have also now finished
investigating a site near the Roman settlement of Branogenium, modern
Leintwardine,
Herefordshire
where the street plan of Leintwardine still shows clear signs of
its Roman origins. After a
geophysical survey of the site by
Archaeophysica
Ltd on January 21st and
22nd we excavated a series of trenches. The most
significant feature found was the base of a kiln, which
may have been used for drying grain or malting. |
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We
are are continuing work on our part of the
Landscape Origins of the Wye Valley project. This
is part of the
Leader+ Herefordshire Rivers programme and is being
run by the River Wye Preservation Trust. The project
involves the study of all the parishes on the Wye between
the confluence of the Wye and the Lugg at Mordiford
and Ross-on-Wye. Much of this land is within the
River Wye Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and
our work will help to meet the strategic objectives
and targets of the 2004-2009 management plan of the
AONB.
The
work is being carried out by a group comprising professionals
and local volunteers. We are always happy to welcome
new volunteers from the area to come forward to assist
in a range of activities. |
