Archaeological finds push Castlegate scheme £8m over budget Council is bidding for more funds to complete the public park and events space in Sheffield city centre.

Interesting stuff!
Although I do feel they could have found a better picture to represent the “significant archaeological finds” uncovered!

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Today’s Half Term boredom buster was a walking tour of Southampton’s Saxon, Viking and Norman past with SeaCity’s Andy Skinner, followed by a self guided lap of the Medieval walls (more survives than you think)!

A screen snip. At the top is a sentence pointing out that the Northern Line tube line closely follows the route of the Roman Road, Stane Street. Beneath are two maps, on the left Stane street is shown with settlements including Morden, Tooting, Clapham and Kennington marked. On the right is another map with the modern northern line shown. All of the settlements on the stane street map are duplicated on the tube map.

We've been on the Northern Line. The idea that it's 2000 years old seems completely reasonable.

🚨 We have heard that the County Archaeologist for Hampshire is being made redundant, with no plans to replace him. 🚨
If you live in Hampshire please write to your MP and Councillors.
If you live elsewhere treasure and support your County Archaeologists, and stand by to protect them. 🏺

Peak Lane, Fareham, Hampshire.

The road was straightened in the late 60s / early 70s to remove a dog’s leg & give more direct access to Stubbington village.
The original route is still visible in 3 sections, intersected by the new route of Peak Lane & the new Daedalus Way.

#ghostroads #lostroads

My understanding is this is the roofline to a porch which abutted the Saxon tower to the west. The current chancel (the original Saxon church) is to the east side of the tower. The porch must have predated the C13th nave which replaced it and was probably contemporary with the Saxon tower

St Thomas a Becket Church, Warblington, Hants.
A view of the east wall of the current nave showing one of the original Saxon doorways into the tower. The current nave was added in the C13th, turning this external doorway into an internal window.

#WindowsOnWednesday #Hampshire

Livin’ the dream @archsoton50.bsky.social

Small C13th doorway in the north wall of the NE chapel of St Peter and St Paul’s church, Fareham, Hampshire.
#AdoorableThursday
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Hardknott Roman Fort, Lake District, Cumbria.
Built early in Hadrian's reign, Hardknott was used for about 20 years, then abandoned, possibly due to other forts becoming more strategically useful.
#RomanFortThursday 🏺 AncientBlueSky

Ramparts of Caesar’s Camp, Long Valley.
A large, multivallate hillfort on the Surrey / Hampshire border with commanding view over the surrounding countryside. Excavations in the 1970s suggest 3 phases of Iron Age occupation
#HillfortsWednesday 🏺 AncientBlueSky

Always worth sticking your head in a utility trench as you pass… you never know what you might see of interest #gosport #railwayhistory #disusedrailwayline

Hmm….
Not helpful when the bibliographic reference you want to check starts with a “B”….
Anyone else have the same printing error? 😂

I have written the first 10,000 words of my PhD thesis! Woohoo! Totally aware that 80% of this might get rewritten over the comes year but allowing myself this moment 🤪 #PhDLife #PhD #Archaeology 🏺

South Downs National Park says waterways failing to support wildlife South Downs National Park is calling for collaboration from local groups to improve water quality.

Waterways failing to support wildlife, report finds

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Yorkshire reservoir levels fall below one third despite rainfall Previously underwater structures were revealed after the

Reservoir levels in Yorkshire have dropped further following the hottest spring and summer on record - exposing a bridge for the first time in a century.

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Microplastics: River Itchen study reveals chronic contamination A study of the River Itchen by citizen scientists finds

'Worrying' amounts of microplastic in chalk stream
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The font in St Bartholomew the Great church in the City of London dates from 1405. It is believed to be one of only two pre-Reformation fonts in London. The painter William Hogarth was baptised here in 1697. #FontsOnFriday 🏺

McArt’s Fort, Belfast.
Standing 368m above see level, this promontory fort (or ráth) is defended on the landward side by a deep ditch and on its other two sides by precipitous cliffs. While it is assumed to be Iron Age, very little investigation of the site has taken place #HillfortsWednesday

The Almshouse in Petworth (known as the Upper Hospital) opened in 1746, initially to provide housing & pension for 12 local widows. This eventually increased to 22 as a result of donations from benefactors #AdoorableThursday

Following on from yesterday, it is only right that today’s #HengeWednesday is Giant’s Ring henge itself. Situated in Ballynahatty, Northern Ireland, this well preserved henge is 180m in diameter, enclosing an area of 6.9 acres. At least 3 of the current 5 entrances are thought to be original. 🏺

The remains of a passage grave, situated in the centre of Giant’s Ring henge in Northern Ireland. Although both Neolithic in date, it is believed the passage grave was constructed first & the henge built around it #TombTuesday 🏺

Bangor Abbey church - the main body of the building dates from the 1830's and 1840's but the tower is from the 15th century and the octagonal steeple dates from around 1693.
#SteepleSaturday #NorthernIreland

A doorway on the cliff. Causeway coastal path (nr the Giants Causeway), N. Ireland #AdoorableThursday #Thursgate #NoContextDoors

This Neolithic Court tomb from Ballintaggart County Armagh was at risk of destruction from expansion of a neighbouring quarry. 
In 2006, the court tomb was dismantled and moved to the Ulster Folk Museum.
#TombTuesday

St.Comgall's parish church, Bangor (N. Ireland) was built in 1882 to replace the church at Bangor Abbey which was deemed too small for Bangor’s expanding population #SteepleSaturday

For #FindsFriday here is lovely little George II farthing dating to 1736 that I picked up at an antiques fair this week

The West door of the Chapel of St Paul, Stansted Park, West Sussex - Originally part of the main Stansted House built in 1480, before being ruined in the Civil War, the building was converted into a place of worship in 1807.
#adoorablethursday

Squeezing in a #WindowsonWednesday with only 5 minutes to spare (in the UK).
More windows than you could dream of a Stansted House, West Sussex. Build in the 1903 on the exact footprint of the former C17th house destroyed by fire 3 years earlier
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The Romanesque “Abbess’s” Doorway on the south side of the nave at Romsey Abbey. The door once opened from the cloisters into the abbey #MedievalMonday
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