Manchester Museum Trip

Lindow Man Exhibition

 

We have arranged for a visit to see the Lindow Man exhibition on Saturday 4th April at Manchester Museum where Bryan Sitch will be on hand to guide us through the exhibits and answer questions. Afterwards, there will be a visit to the Roman Fort reconstruction, with the option of seeing the remains of a medieval bridge later in the afternoon.

 

Details on the Lectures and Events page...

 

22nd March

Tollgate Farm Spoon

 

Some new photographs of the spoon found on our Roman site pre- and post-conservation:

 

 

 

14th March 2009

Swan Bank Pottery, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent

Update

 

This is the location of an 18th century oven used for firing salt-glazed stoneware beneath a 19th century oven used for firing Rockingham Ware. Also on the site is evidence of an 18th century farmhouse and a muffle-oven which have yet to be fully investigated.

 

The site has produced many types of pottery including creamware, slipware, brown and white saltglazed stoneware, Cistercian/black wares and Midlands Purple/butter pot and some possible fragments of medieval ware.

 

Excavations started in 2007, continued in 2008 and may resume in the Spring of 2009.

 

Significant finds include:

• the base of a mottled-ware vessel with the name "Cartlitch" and the date 1709(?). (Thos. Wedgwood, writing in 1760, records a "Saml Cartlich" making "motled ware" in the vicinity in 1710-15.)
• some shards of (possibly) Buckley sgraffito ware
• an almost complete Midlands-purple cistern
• an unusual white saltglazed stoneware gaming piece (?)
• press-moulded slipware dishes with the embossed initials "WW"

17th January 2009

 

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