Excavation Locations

For several reasons we have decided not to publish the detailed locations of any of our excavations at this time. This information along with access to all our excavation records will be available to other workers on application.

Notes on excavation September 2022

Aims Our first aim was to re-excavate the May 2022 trench and then determine if the ‘hard shoulder’ feature found along the northern edge of the foundation layer abutted or extended below that layer. This feature was a spread of stones in the range of 5cm to 10cm spread out in a band approximately 1.2m …

August 8th to 11th dig

Unfortunately we were unable to return to the site of the May dig because there was still a standing crop of grass so we switched to an adjacent field where we had opened a series of test pits (1m square excavations)  in 2021 and in March this year.  We opened two trenches  one across the …

Clitheroe Castle Festival of Archaeology 2022

At Clitheroe Castle Museum on the 23rd of July 11am – 3pm Ribble Valley Archaeology will be at this event presenting what we have been doing on this project and will be available to answer questions and provide more details about the excavations we have done so far and tell you about our future plans. …

Rimington and Middop – Archaeology and Local History Day

Ribble valley Archaeology (RVA) held a very successful archaeology and local history day, hosted by Rimington Memorial Institute, on Saturday 9 April. Since its formation, a year ago, RVA has mainly been investigating the Roman road which runs from Ribchester to Elslack and then on to Ilkley and York, but particularly the very scenic section …

Report on Level 1 Archaeology Training – Thursday 24 June 2021

Background As part of the project to investigate the Roman Road between Chatburn and Coal Pit Lane, at Rimington, Jayne Ashe of the Pendle Hill Landscape Partnership (PHLP) arranged level 1 archaeological survey training which was run by Rebecca Cadbury Simmons of Northern Archaeological Associates. There were 2 sessions, morning and afternoon, and the author …

Probe Survey 30 June, 2021

Roman Road Investigation – A59 to Coal Pit Lane, Rimington; part of Margary 72a Report on investigation into possible agger in using probe technique. Participants   B. Jeffery, P. del Strother, L. Marklew, T.Marklew. Background  During a survey of the Martin Top and Howgill area on 11th June, two Test pits were dug in which …

June 5th walkover survey led by Trevor Marklew

Organised by the Friends of Pendle Heritage (Pendle Archaeology Group) The aim was to follow the suggested RR from west of Martin Top Chapel to the A682. The objectives were to identify a number of locations where future investigations and possible excavations may take place. Elizabeth Robinson, the farmer’s wife, shared her knowledge of Rakes Farm footpaths, …

Two Excavation Reports on work done on local Roman Roads

These reports are were published in the first volume of Itinera The Journal of theRoman Roads Research Association. The RRRA have kindly given me permission to share these reports. Please note as these are abstracts from a larger publication only available to RRRA members they each contain introductory pages from the full publication. OLIVER COOK, …

HERITAGE AND ARCHAEOLOGY – DOWNHAM WALK

Organised by the Friends of Pendle Heritage (Pendle Archaeology Group) What a joyous start to the easing of lockdown, gorgeous weather and good company.   A group of socially distanced Friends met at the Assheton Arms in Downham. First to the site of the Roman Road (RR).   David Taylor described the features of RR’s and their …

Roman Road visit to Downham and Rimington

PAG 2: Roman Road visit to Downham and Rimington                                                    Date: 01 April 2021 We visited the section of concessionary footpath from Town End Croft Wood (NGr. 378534 444507) to Hall Royds Wood (NGr. 378843 444591) to see if there were any observable features which could be considered to be ‘Roman’. We were concerned that …