ChesterArchSoc
@ChesterArchSoc
Founded in 1849. Our interests cover archaeology, history & conservation in Cheshire & surrounding areas. Re-tweeting does not constitute endorsement.
We have now submitted a compilation of our comments on the @Go_CheshireWest Local Plan issues & Options paper. We focus on urban design and how the historic environment can help to shape it for the better. chesterarchaeolsoc.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
✨ Good news! ✨ 🚍 Our itravel on-demand rural bus service will now be operating on Saturdays from 2 August 2025 👉 cwac.co/N2D8g
⚠️ Scottish Power Energy Networks (SPEN) will be working on the A5115 Christleton Road by the Sandy Lane junction and Challinor Street, Chester, on 31 July and 1 August, lane closures will be in place impacting traffic flow into the city centre at peak times ⚠️
If you're interested in actually seeing how a Gaelic language church sings the psalms, there's a video on youtube from Back Free Church on the Isle of Lewis - it really is quite extraordinary. The actual singing starts after the introduction at 0:40. youtube.com/watch?v=k3MzZg…
The day after I photographed the psalms in the Gaelic translation of the Book of Common Prayer in Stonehaven, I was in Inverness Museum where there was this. It's a metrical psalter in Gaelic, the psalms adapted into rhyming couplets to make them easier to learn and so they could…
A fantastic weekend of tours at Llangar Church with @cadwwales — a rare chance to explore this beautifully preserved medieval & Georgian church with stunning wall paintings. Join us for the final event at Rug Chapel, 9–10 Aug: zurl.co/Z3aOs #FestivalOfArchaeology
Looking up and down the staircase inside the former Blackburn Assurance Company Building in #Liverpool.
Spanish discovery suggests Roman era ‘church’ may have been a synagogue Oil lamp fragments point to presence of previously unknown Jewish population in Ibero-Roman town of Cástulo theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
Huge thanks to @CraigHughes123 and Mrs H for getting stuck in to all the 150th anniversary Victorian Fair shenanigans today! Always a treat to have them at our events bringing good vibes every time 💙#Anderton150 @CanalRiverTrust #Northwich #BirthdayBash
Via di Capodiferro 31, Rome Ancient columns, topped with 12th century capitals and frieze once formed part of a medieval portico In the 19th century it was incorporated into a house… I think I could happily live here, how about you?
The remarkable hoard of Roman nails discovered at Inchtuthil, Perth and Kinross, Scotland 🏴, dating to approximately 87 AD, represents a unique archaeological find. This vast collection, totaling an astonishing 875,400 iron nails, was deliberately buried by the Roman army as…
#AncientSiteSunday - Iassos, an ancient city in Caria, situated on a small peninsula connected to the mainland by an isthmus. According to Strabo, Iassos was a celebrated fishing place, and its harbour made it an important commercial centre. Today, it is an extensive multi-period…
Problem of seas of houses with no community centres, a focus of our response to the emerging @Go_CheshireWest Local Plan (which has some good principles, if they can be enacted); see chesterarchaeolsoc.org.uk/wp-content/upl… theguardian.com/politics/2025/…
Ever heard of wattle and daub? It’s an ancient building method using woven wooden strips & clay. Clayton Hall has one surviving panel—tucked high in the apex of the building. See it through our viewing hatch on our next open day, Sat 2nd August. 🔍Visit claytonhall.org
Ymunwch â ni heddiw yn Greenfield Valley ar gyfer ein diwrnod agored yn Lower Cotton Mill 12.00pm-15.00pm. Join us today at Greenfield Valley for our Lower Cotton Mill open day 12.00pm-15.00pm. #DyffrynMaesGlas #GreenfieldValley
Queen's Park, Crewe an old postcard A great old #postcard made by the Cheshire Federation of Women's Institutes. Members photographed their areas to create #postcards & calendars, & they provide a wonderful snapshot of #Cheshire in the 1980s! #WI #WomensInstitute #Crewe #parks
Tomb of Quintus Urbicus in Tiddis, Algeria. A Numidian general, he served as the proconsul of Roman Britain and led several campaigns against the Picts in Scotland as well as began the building of the Antonine wall.
Is Gibbon’s “The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire” Still Relevant? 🏛️ Edward Gibbon published his monstrous Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in the 18th century, but is it still a required reading for Roman historians? thecollector.com/edward-gibbon-… Via @romanhistory1
Yet more evidence on the importance of place and what places look like for our mental wellbeing. Why we all love to be beside the seaside & on the importance of nostalgia …. cam.ac.uk/stories/nostal…
The Wolf of Ardross. A 5th Century Pictish sandstone carving found in 1890 during repairs to a wall on the Ardross Estate, Ross Shire, photographed last month in Inverness Museum.
Views over & within the #Roman-German battlefield at the Oberesch, #Kalkriese (Germany) - likely the site of the final stages of the AD 9 Battle of the Teutoburg, or 'Varus Disaster' - during a period where it was being excavated #RomanSiteSaturday