© Saddleworth Archaeological Trust , 2007
In July, the Trust played host to The Roman Antiquities Section of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society when they visited the Roman forts at Castleshaw. Ken Booth, who explained both the history of the archaeological excavations on the Castleshaw site as well as a detailed description of the earthworks of both fort and fortlet, conducted the tour. Donald Haigh, a Trustee, who led the team that discovered the Roman road through Saddleworth in the 1970’s, described to the party the route of the road.
The Roman Antiquities Section of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society
Our winter session of in-door lectures began on Tuesday 16th October at Uppermill Masonic Hall when Bryan Sitch, Head of Humanities and Curator of Archaeology at the Manchester Museum gave a talk entitled ‘Fort, Port or Villa; a Roman site at Faxfleet, East Yorkshire. Bryan wetted our appetite by making the case for each of the possibilities for the site, mainly based on the vast quantities of pottery that the site produced. At the end of the talk it is thought most of the audience considered that the site was a port.
November is the month of the ‘Stonehouse Memorial Lecture’ which is held at the Royal George Hotel in Greenfield. This year an audience in excess of 50 people  were given a very interesting talk on ‘The Alderley Edge Project’ by Professor John Prag, Hon. Professor in the Manchester Museum and Professor Emeritus of Classics, The University of Manchester.
Professor Prag told of the origins of the project and then proceeded to tell us  of each of the areas covered in detail. The archaeology covered survey, excavation  and experiment in the ancient mining landscape.
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