🚶♀️🌳One week on from #OutAndAboutArchaeology, we’re looking back at the lovely (& wacky) places our team explored on their fundraising walks. Spot anywhere familiar?
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My week has also seen me doing lots of dog walks around Clifton, York, where you can find remnants of RAF Clifton, medieval ridge and furrow and the garden tree planting for the North Riding of Yorkshire Mental Hospital at Clifton Park #OutAndAboutArchaeology @archaeologyuk.bsky.social
On Friday I walked from Richmond to Easby Abbey. On the way back we past a memorial to a Drummer Boy disappeared when trying to find the ‘lost’ tunnel between Richmond Castle & the Abbey. The trees growing over the path makes a natural tunnel #OutAndAboutArchaeology @archaeologyuk.bsky.social
Wednesday saw me exploring Sutton Bank with Miles Johnson, National Park Archaeologist @northyorkmoors.org.uk From Bronze Age Barrows and Dykes to WW2 slit trenches, from Hillforts to aircraft hangars and even conservation goats 🐐 this walk had it all
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Over the last 9 days for #OutAndAboutArchaeology I have explored York from leading a walking tour to dashing round the City Walls on my lunch brakes - York never disappoints, there is always something going on and it’s constantly changing @archaeologyuk.bsky.social
#OutAndAboutArchaeology looking back at 9 days walking to raise money for @archaeologyuk.bsky.social. I covered 146km and here are a few of my walks:
I've been taking part in the @archaeologyuk.bsky.social #OutAndAboutArchaeology fundraising walk and your support matters. Every step we've taken, and every pound you give, helps create opportunities for people to discover, explore, and share the stories that connect us to our past 👉 bit.ly/4kg9nbg
To the right is a well worn set of three stone steps, surrounded by bare stony ground. It is set back a couple of metres away from a paved footpath to the right, in amongst a wooded area.
A woman wearing sunglasses and a bright yellow top stands to the left, with grassy meadows and trees behind her. There is the end of a spired chapel with a large window in the distance, next to a lower white building with lots of smaller windows.
I've loved wearing my archaeology goggles bringing the past into focus for @archaeologyuk.bsky.social #OutAndAboutArchaeology this week. Strolling down the #Cambridge backs this afternoon, there was this stone mounting block which I must have passed countless times before but I've only now seen.
A round black timber windmill with white sails stands in an area of long grass, with a wooden boardwalk with benches in front, a wooden bridge behind and a building in the distance. The sky is grey and cloudy.
Ventured to @nationaltrust.org.uk #WickenFen for #OutAndAboutArchaeology where work is underway to restore the drained fen peat, which is not only an important carbon sink and wildlife habitat, but provides a window on the past landscape www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/cambri...
Small slit trench half of which has been excavated by archaeologists. Next to the trench is a mound of earth that was the upcast of the trench used as a firing platform
Large ditch and bank - a Bronze Age dike which turns to the right as it goes around and earlier burial mound. The earthworks are covered in Bilberry and a tree grows out of the mound
Roof of aircraft hangar. Made of wooden trusses called a Belfast Truss. Over 100 years old.
5 goats eating grass and the leaves of a Silver Birch tree. The goats are an orange/gold colour and know as Golden Guernsey’s
#OutAndAboutArchaeology @archaeologyuk.bsky.social Wednesday - Sutton Bank, North Yorkshire with Miles Johnson from the @northyorkmoors.org.uk exploring everything from the prehistoric to the WW2, Hillforts to slit trenches, Belfast Truss hangars to conservation goats. We even met an adder!!
Information panel for Easby Abbey, nr Richmond North Yorkshire
View of Richmond Castle over the River Swale. Trees in foreground and to side of castle with tower keep in middle of the image
Me standing in small doorway of the Gatehouse to Easby Abbey. Next to me is my very wet Dog Star. A golden cocker spaniel who has just been swimming in the River Swale.
Information board outside Easby Abbey
#OutAndAboutArchaeology @archaeologyuk.bsky.social lovely day in Richmond walking to Easby Abbey along the River Swale
🚶♀️500km and counting! That’s like walking Hadrian’s Wall 4 times.
CBA staff & trustees are exploring the past step by step to raise funds for #OutAndAboutArchaeology.
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A path through an overgrown graveyard with a stone cross memorial on the right under a yew tree and a line of headstones on the left.
Inspiration for today's #OutAndAboutArchaeology walk came from Churchill College who recently shared a video about the Ascension Burial Ground in #Cambridge This 19th century cemetery includes the graves of over 2000 people years including 3 Nobel prize winners ascensionparishburialground.uk
A free standing road sign reading 'Ring Fort Road' next to a tarmacked pavement and parched grass verge, with buildings beyond a fence in the background.
One of my favourite I-Spy activities is spotting archaeology themed road names and north #Cambridge is a hot spot! Ring Fort Road follows the circular plan of an Iron Age hillfort bank and ditch capturingcambridge.org/arbury/arbur... #OutAndAboutArchaeology
A woman in a light blue top and khaki trousers stands with a rucksack on a screen slope near som rusted buildings against a backdrop of bright blue sky and green hills
A collection of buildings nestle in the slopes of a hill. They look like they are cobbled together from scraps of wood and metal
Yesterday I took a stroll to see Force Cragg Mine for #OutandAboutArchaeology @archaeologyuk.bsky.social
Cared for by @nationaltrust.org.uk & open this very weekend for #HeritageOpenDays @lakedistrictnpa.bsky.social walk for those wanting to visit www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/visiting/thi...
A closely mown green grassy park area with dried yellow lines in a rectangular outline. There is a path and tree in the background.
A very dry spring means the parch marks for World War II air raid shelters on Jesus Green #Cambridge are already showing #OutAndAboutArchaeology
Read more about the archaeology of this green space via this @ads-update.bsky.social entry archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/brow...
An side-on view of an interpretation board about Olaudah Equiano attached to metal railings alongside a river with a modern metal arched bridge in the background.
One of the things I've appreciated sorting #OutAndAboutArchaeology this week are all the interpretation boards in #Cambridge This one highlights the incredible story of Olaudah Equiano, an influential writer and abolitionist, now commemorated by the Equiano Bridge near @museumoftechnology.com
A tall narrow brick chimney towers above the nearby trees and buildings, and is reflected on the surface of a river in the foreground.
Two large red iron mechanical wheeled pumps contained within a Victorian tiled building.
A brilliant evening spent exploring the industrial heritage of #Cambridge at @museumoftechnology.com with the @camunivmuseums.bsky.social Community Panel and @whipplemuseum.bsky.social staff, exchanging insights and ideas. A few more steps clocked up for #OutAndAboutArchaeology too!
I’m taking part in @archaeologyuk.bsky.social fundraising walk #OutAndAboutArchaeology The challenge isn’t just about the distance. It’s about what happens when we step outside and reconnect, with the traces of human activity that surround us in streets, fields, buildings, and natural landscapes.
The Chesterton Hoard was buried over 700 years ago and included 1800 silver coins and 9 gold coins now at @fitzmuseum.bsky.social Try this Look, Think, Do activity for #OutAndAboutArchaeology fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/learn-with-u...
A tall cylindrical bronze sculpture cast from a wood carved mould depicting layers of archaeological finds. The picture shows a close up of a crouched inhumation burial. In the background is a road, with pedestrian crossing to the left and a brick wall to the right.
A tall bronze cylindrical sculpture is shown in shadow to the right of a four-way road crossing with the buildings of Museum of Cambridge and Kettle's Yard to the left.
It's easy to miss the #Cambridge Core at this busy crossing so I enjoyed the chance to pause today and take a closer look for #OutAndAboutArchaeology It was inspired by finds from an excavation by @cambridgearch.bsky.social including a late Saxon cemetery and a medieval coin hoard.
For today's @archaeologyuk.bsky.social #outandaboutarchaeology I decided on a nice short local walk around our village to prove archaeology can be found everywhere. The whole walk with lots of archaeology can be downloaded here: beta.southglos.gov.uk/static/190c9...
A woman wearing a cycle helmet stands to the left of a stone built chapel with a path leading to the door.
Took a detour on my morning commute for #OutAndAboutArchaeology to see the Leper Chapel #Cambridge @cambridgeppf.bsky.social Dating to the 12th century, it is the city's second oldest complete building and nearly 85 years older than @cambridgeuni.bsky.social
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A stone built church with round Norman crenellated tower at the far end, and nave, chancel and north transept at the near end. There is a cemetery with gravestones in the foreground.
A medieval church wall painting of a red figurative dragon with long looped tail to the left and, on the right, a head with large ears or horns and tongue or fire from its mouth. A mounted stone memorial plaque partially covers the painting.
Walk on to St Mary's Church #Bartlow and you'll see some breathtaking 15th century wall paintings. Originally a scene of St George slaying the dragon, it now stands alone triumphant #OutAndAboutArchaeology @archaeologyuk.bsky.social historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...
Overgrown stone structure in woods
Chimney stack overgrown in woods
Views of the estate behind a wall and tree canopy
We finished our walk with a wander through the woods & just as we thought we were finished we found an abandoned 18thC water-powered corn mill #industrialarchaeology
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Two tall conical grass-covered mounds, one to the right in the foreground and one to the right in the distance with wooden steps to the top. There is a tree to the left in the foreground.
View looking down and across to a conical grass-covered mound in the distance from the top of a second in the foreground. A woman wearing a long green coat and glasses stands to the left.
Went further afield for #OutAndAboutArchaeology today to visit #Bartlow Hills #Cambridgeshire Originally the largest group of Roman barrows in northern Europe, the three largest mounds are impressive structures and publicly accessible
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Child stood at the base of a grassy hill with trees and a round castle structure
Castle structure on a hill. Blue skies
We've found the castle and it's beautiful here in Hawarden🤩 Well worth the walk to find it peeping through the trees for #OutandAboutArchaeology with @archaeologyuk.bsky.social
Current castle dates to the 13thC but has Norman origins 🏺🧵4/
