ChesterArchSoc
chesterarchsoc.bsky.social
ChesterArchSoc
@chesterarchsoc.bsky.social
Our interests cover archaeology, history & conservation in Cheshire & surrounding areas. Founded 1849. Website www.chesterarchaeolsoc.org.uk
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Our next talk: 'Victorian Workers' Housing' by Dr Gareth Carr of Wrexham University at the Grosvenor Museum, Chester, Weds 19 November, 7:30pm. Non-members welcome (£5 entry). Also back copies of our journal for sale.

CAS members : check you emails for a notification of this event.
Want to go on a #Chester Rows tour and take the children? Book on one of these 'Miles the Mason' tours on Sat 22 November, 11:00-12:00 am and 2:00-3:00 pm. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-rows-f... and www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-rows-f....

Sponsored by ChesterArchSoc.bsky.social as part of #Rowvember.
The Rows Family Tour with Miles the Mason
Step back in time and discover the secrets of Chester’s famous Rows with Miles the Mason, our lively Tudor re-enactor and your tour guide.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Y Gop in #Flintshire, the second-largest prehistoric mound in Europe. Like its much bigger cousin Silbury Hill, it contains no burials but unlike Silbury it may mark their location: in a cave below the mound #Neolithic and Bronze Age skeletons were found, showing 1000s of years of use.
#TombTuesday
November 11, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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All roads in ancient Rome stretched far longer than previously known, study shows.
phys.org/news/2025-11...
All roads in ancient Rome stretched far longer than previously known, study shows
As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome—and those roads stretched 50% longer than previously known, according to a new digital atlas published Thursday.
phys.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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They were often the first in families to convert and their mobility, both to form marriage alliances and lead female monasteries, helped spread the religion, marking a brief period where women took centre stage in English history 2/2

Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Women of the Conversion Period: a biomolecular investigation of mobility in early medieval England
Exogamous marriage alliances involving royal women played a prominent role in the conversion of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to Christianity in the seventh century AD. Yet the large number of well-furnished female burials from this period suggests a broader change in the role of women. The authors present the results of isotopic analysis of seventh-century burials, comparing male and female mobility and the mobility of females from well-furnished versus poorly/unfurnished burials. Results suggest increased mobility during the Conversion Period that is, paradoxically, most noticeable among women buried in poorly furnished graves; their well-furnished contemporaries were more likely to have grown up near to their place of burial.
doi.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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#OnThisDay in AD 1992, the General Synod of the Church of England voted to allow women to become priests, but did you know women were the drivers of Anglo Saxon England's conversion to Christianity in the 7th century AD?

🏺#Archaeology 1/2
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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The phenomenal and enigmatic rock crystal and gold 'jar' of Bishop Hyguald from the heart of the Galloway Hoard is NOW on display for the first time ever. It was held back for Kirkcudbright while the rest of the Hoard continues its world tour in Melbourne (1/2)
Gold jar from Galloway Hoard on display in Kirkcudbright
It resembles a perfume bottle and a Latin inscription on it suggests it had a religious function.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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An Irish or British Bucket in Birka 🪣

This wood and copper-alloy pail is of Insular type, but was found in grave Bj 557 next to the market town of Birka.

Although likely from a Viking raid, it could derive from long-distance trade in high-status items.

My 📷 Historiska museet
November 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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...also saved by Historic England is the C17th Old School Coffee House, in Barnstaple, Devon, founded as a school for ‘20 poor maids’ in 1659, it is now transformed into affordable homes. The perfect example that we don't space, we need place. The greenest building already exists
November 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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What a joy to behold. Gloucester's 26 Westgate ('Old Judges House'), and England's largest timber-framed townhouse has been repaired thanks to a grant from Historic England. Approaching 500 years old, it's now home to the Gloucester Antiques Centre. Long may she thrive...
November 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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#EpigraphyTuesday a painted Greek wall inscription from a Late Antique church at Philoxenite, Egypt. It translates as ‘fell asleep in Christ our father, who is among the saints, [name]’, indicating it was a funerary inscription, but no grave was found.

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🏺 #Archaeology
November 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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So much of Cymru/Wales's heritage lost in a single theft..

...Items from Llanwrthwrl, Powys, Capel Isaf, Carmarthenshire, Heyope, Powys, & the spectacular Early Bronze Age gold lunula from Llanllyfni, Gwynedd.

😞

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Search continues for Bronze Age artefacts stolen from St Fagans
Two men have been charged with burglary, but
www.bbc.co.uk
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CAS members - check your emails for an invitation to a preview of 'The Fall of Rome' - an episode from a forthcoming @BBC series; Grosvenor Museum, Sat 22 November.
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Chester Civic Trust
@ChesterCivTrust
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Consortium has launched a consultation on its plans, which include up to 350 one- and two-bedroom flats on a large site near the station.

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November 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Seriously looking forward to this with the renowned @richardosgood.bsky.social 🔥🧙💯
❄️⛄🎄Cambrians Christmas Lecture 2025 ❄️⛄🎄
The Druids' Sacrifice: Discovering Iron Age Wales on Military Land By Richard Osgood (Senior Archaeologist, Defence Infrastructure Organisation)
Online via Zoom: Thursday 4th December @ 7.00 pm
Booking details [to follow]
November 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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At the crossing in Canterbury Cathedral looking up into Bell Harry Tower.
November 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Chester people, don't miss this excellent @chesterscibar.bsky.social talk next week on plans to get green heat for the city from the Dee. Will also cover the history and ecology of the river and it's importance to the city.

It is FREE and part of @storyhouselive.bsky.social Futures Festival.
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Music, along with Theology and all modern languages now under threat at Nottingham Uni. More details in Hannah’s message below.
Devastated to share the news that was broken to colleagues in Music (and other departments) at the University of Nottingham yesterday. This is obviously a very difficult time for us and our students.

Please contact us on protectuonmusic@gmail.com if you would like to be involved.
November 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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I got intrigued and checked oed.com. Forebear is actually 'fore-be-er', one who was before, which I didn't know, and there is even an 'afterbeer/afterbear' with quotations from 1625 and 2008. There's also an 'afterliver', so take your pick!
November 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Today's news:

What happens when museums can't afford to buy coins...

'Auctioneer, David Guest said the "stunning" coins were sold to "bidders from all over the world and exceeded my expectations".'

Bidders.
From.
All.
Over.
The.
World.

😡

#Archaeology 🏺 #Detecting
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New Forest hoard of 70 coins dug up in lockdown fetch over £380k
The 69 gold coins and one silver were found in a garden in Milford on Sea in April 2020.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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THREAD: Delighted that Peterborough Museum has received £250k, to further explore the amazing Bronze Age assemblage from Must Farm. One of my favourite projects of the past few years was creating replicas of the pots, to better understand the technology behind them 🏺
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Peterborough Museum gets £250k for Bronze Age project
The two-year initiative will explore the discoveries made at Must Farm in Whittlesey.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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'Iron Age hillfort 'mysteriously faded' from use' 🏺
Iron Age hillfort near Perth 'mysteriously faded' from use
Archaeologists suggest the coming of a Roman army could be a reason why Broxy Kennels Fort was abandoned.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
LiorLefineder
@lefineder 9h
Rise and fall of Greek & Latin inscriptions.

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LiorLefineder on X: "Rise and fall of Greek & Latin inscriptions. https://t.co/IdyNMK0OeT" / X
Rise and fall of Greek & Latin inscriptions. https://t.co/IdyNMK0OeT
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November 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM