Hadrian’s Wall
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Not what you expect with a water bill!
Alice Roberts, Anglian Water, Cat Jarman, Cerne Abbas Giant, churches, digging for Britain, Hadrian’s Wall, HS2, ichtyosaur, industrialisation, Iron Age, Leicester, Norman architecture, Northern Ireland, Onyeka Nubia, Richmond Castle, Rochdale, Roman mosaic, Roman plumbing, Rutland, Rutland Water, Salisbury Plain, Stoke Mandeville, World War TwoI also received this from Anglia Water about the “Rutland Sea Dragon”, an ichtyosaur found near Rutland Water. It featured in episode four of Digging for Britain, the latest series of which was shown over two weeks in January. As ever, Alice Roberts was the main presenter, alongside Dr. Onyeka Nubia and Dr. Cat Jarman.…
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The Great British Dig – History in Your Garden (2)
Agricola, Antonine Wall, Antoninus Pius, Beningborough, bowls clubs, castles, Channel Four, Chloe Duckworth, Devizes, Elizabethan buildings, Falkirk, Hadrian’s Wall, housing estates, Hugh Dennis, Iron Age, John Bourchier, Liverpool, mill streams, Natasha Billson, North Yorkshire, power, prisons, Richard Taylor, Roman Empire, roundabouts, royal hunting estates, schools, St. Edward the Confessor, sunken gardens, The Great British Dig, West Derby, WiltshireHugh Dennis and his small team of archaeologists are back on Channel Four and this time they have gone back a full two thousand years and beyond. The series starts in Falkirk with a fort and a piece of the Antonine Wall, apparently buried under several gardens and a bowls club. After some digging, the…
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The Great British Dig – History in Your Garden
Andy Robertshaw, burials, Caroline Wilkinson, Christian convert, Domesday Book, facial reconstruction, gun emplacement, Hadrian’s Wall, Hugh Dennis, Lenton, Maidstone, Masham, Newcastle, Nottinghamshire, Priories, pubs, Sean Bean, Second World War, South Shields, Time team, Trow Point, Vikings, William IThis excellent series began with a pilot last April, with Hugh Dennis and three archaeologists looking for a Roman settlement on the site of a former inn in Maidstone’s Florence Road. It resumed in February with the small team moving to Benwell, Newcastle, to locate a Hadrian’s Wall fort, followed by a Viking burial ground…
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… Walking Britain’s Roman Roads, in fact. It is quite a good series, in which Jones explores some of the most important of these, together with some aspects of Romano-British Society. The first episode takes him the length of Watling Street, the first part of which is now he M2, during which he visits the…
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Richard of Gloucester as Lord of the North and the siege of Berwick 1482
Anne Neville, Arthur “Tudor”, Bamburgh, Berwick, borders, Brough, Brougham, Carlisle, Cecilia, Cecily Duchess of York, Coldingham, Council of the North, Croyland, Cumberland, Duke of Albany, Duke of Angus, Earl of Northumberland, Edward IV, George Duke of Clarence, George Neville, Hadrian’s Wall, Henry VII, James III, James IV, Joan “Beaufort”, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Lord of the North, Middleham, Paston Letters, Penrith Castle, Ralph Neville, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Roxburgh, Scotland, Scottish Marches, Sheriff Hutton, siege of Berwick, Sixtus IV, Thomas Lord StanleyOriginally posted on Giaconda's Blog: Having recently visited some of Richard’s holdings in the north of England such as Penrith Castle which he was given after the death of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick in 1471, I wanted to write a short piece about his role as Lord Warden of the West Marches and Sheriff…
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