Session on producing prehistory tools from old glass Bottles

Posted on February 2, 2025 by kevin

This last weekend TAS members were privileged to have training from Manchester Universities John Piprani https://learningthroughmakingblog.wordpress.com/about/

Organised by https://southmanchesterarchaeology.wordpress.com/

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SEPTEMBER 2024 HERITAGE MONTH TAMESIDE

Posted on August 24, 2024 by kevin
TAS display at Tameside local studies & Archive centre, Ashton under Lyne (All September)

The display will be discussed during a free TAS talk at 2pm on the 18th September 2024

‘Overlooking Mottram in the Stone Age.’

(requires booking ) at the Tameside Local Studies & Archive Centre,

Other talks will be available Tameside History Club Talks – Tameside MBC.

Talks need to be booked on 0161 342 4242

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Pair of Pheasants appear at Finds Table

Posted on July 17, 2024 by kevin
Potential new diggers worried at complexity of finds at our latest site inspecting the finds table!
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CHEETHAM PARK DIG 22/6/24 – 23/6/24

Posted on June 12, 2024 by kevin

SEE A DIG IN  CHEETHAM PARK, STALYBRIDGE SK15 2BT: 10am to 4pm Saturday and Sunday

COME and SEE opening up more of the past of EASTWOOD HOUSE

MEET TAMESIDES own archaeologists and find out more about what has already been discovered

BRING ANY FINDS you want identifying

Come along and find out about any finds you have found in your garden/school playing fields/on walks

Drawing of Eastwood House
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Nest of Stones Neolithic prepared for disassembly and reassembly for archiving

Posted on April 23, 2024 by kevin
Pre disassembly, the large central stone is held up by three smaller chock stones . And a quartz pebble is secreted away below this large stone.
Negative image where chock stones and quartz pebble removed
Filled by plaster of paris and bandaging.

Reverse of dried plaster of paris following being lifted. The attached sand will be removed gradually and a mould will be made to allow the nest of stones to be reassembled off site. Check back for updates.
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Finds processing ongoing

Posted on January 23, 2024 by kevin
A prehistory worked tool

The above find having its number drawn for posterity
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Trip to Liverpool World Museum & St Georges Hall

Posted on January 22, 2024 by kevin
Return Of The Gods

Runs until 25th February 2024

The History Whisperer

A hybrid digital and tour of the courtroom and viewing of the main hall

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Magnetometry survey of latest phase in Mottram site under the low cloud over Neolithic Tameside

Posted on November 24, 2023 by kevin

Removal of top soils to expose the lower archaeology layers associated with prehistory in Tameside. This survey was previously undertaken prior to the grass being removed. The two surveys will enable an evaluation of magnetic activity in the more modern soils and what if any persists at The Neolithic level.
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Talk on ground stones at Conference

Posted on November 7, 2023 by kevin

TAS member Kevin Wright will be talking about results from a Mottram site where stones found on site will be discussed, their uses, their distributions and how they may have related to prehistoric people living on the land in Tameside.

The annual archaeology day, hosted by the Greater Manchester Archaeological Advisory Service in conjunction with the Greater Manchester Archaeology Federation, is to be held at the University of Salford on Saturday 25th November 09:30 – 17:00. The venue is Peel Hall in the Peel Building at the University of Salford. Click on the following link to purchase a ticket. £10 or £5.

Archaeology | University of Salford

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Neolithic Workshop

Posted on July 4, 2023 by jerry hinds
The two stones; the smaller one is granite and the larger sandstone.

Recently digging on our Neolithic site we came across these two stones embedded in the natural interglacial sand. Both had evidence of having been used as small anvils.

One would imagine that the smaller, granite stone would have been used for working flints, while the larger sandstone piece might have been used to work wood.

The depressions in which they sat did not seem to have been cut, as such, but it makes sense that the stones would have been purposely pressed into the sand to achieve stability. There was a fine line between creating a good flint and wrecking one, so they needed a good surface to work on.

It’s fascinating that simply from two stones in the ground we can begin to build a picture of the lives and working practices of people from thousands of years ago.

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