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A sunny start to the day  but cooled significantly by afternoon. However trench two kept providing pottery finds, pipe bowls etc. Steve was working down in the top of a cellar corridor and discovered a doorway in the cellar.

http://youtu.be/QbgyZzJ7Oig a tune by Fred Astaire, likely to have been listened to in Eastwood House pre WW2.   After a cool start ( idea for overhead photos though!) Work carried on , Sarah was kept on her toes with her … Continue reading →

  If any one one has seen one of these please let kevin (wright722@btinternet.com) know the location. They can be a cylinder as in this photo of one found in Tameside, usually with central pin or a central space so … Continue reading →

The first day was helped by glorious weather . The rear of the house was the starting point for Trench One. A cobbled walk way with an external wall and drain suggested this could be the entrance to the south … Continue reading →

Cheetham parks dog walkers had a surprise today as the the machines moved in. The area where the big dig was screened off whilst a digger started peeling back the soil layers to start revaling the parks hidden secrets. TAS … Continue reading →

TAS has put togother research material for exhibit at the next Manchester Dig series (Salford University) in Cheetham Park. Very litte was known about the families who lived at Eastwood House. A request went to the House of Commons and  … Continue reading →

TAS have been surveying an area known as windgate edge. Several years previously a large rock with chisel marks was discovered and recorded by TAS. We returned today to survey the rock further and looking for evidence of any other … Continue reading →

TAS pulled pottery samples from its previous 10 years of excavations. A database will be put together with samples of pottery. Kerry  went through how pottery can be classified and how some fragments can be dated from the processes avaiable … Continue reading →

20th February (7pm), Festival Hall, Denton, Kerry Beeston, is coming to help with a pottery workshop . TAS is putting together a pictoral pottery database for the public and other federation members to aid identifcation of regional pottery. If any … Continue reading →

Following the success of two years of archaeological assessment of the park by TAS we were approached by Brian Grimsditch, Senior Archaeologist for the Centre for Applied Archaeology,  Salford for the project to be expanded. The dig will start on … Continue reading →