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
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
Runs until 25th February 2024
A hybrid digital and tour of the courtroom and viewing of the main hall
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.
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.
With spring comes the prospect of unearthing new treasures. Well, old treasures hopefully. And by treasures, we don’t mean hoards of gold coin. A post hole, a change in the colour of the earth, a piece of flint or a broken shard of pottery could be all we need to indicate that we have found something worth further exploration.
Take the site below, recently de-turfed, ready for the new season. We already know that it is within a few metres of a Neolithic hearth. What we find in the coming weeks and months could give us a significantly fuller picture of how the site was used by people so many years ago.
