With the fabulous #RACTRAC2024 drawing to a close, I am delighted to have got Dr Victoria Austen’s awesome book from Bloomsbury Classical Studies & Archaeology stall and to have caught up with Lily Mac Mahon during the conference. Looking forward to some great reading 😃😍📖📕

2/2 To repair these will be very expensive and take up volunteer resources. This comes at a time when TCV Merseyside have come to the end of their main funding grant for their Friday volunteers group. This will have a huge impact on the management of the Countess of Chester Country Park. Very sad.

1/2 Now that the flooding on the lower paths in the Countess of Chester Country Park has receded you can see now why we warned people not to try and wade through. Damage to the river bank caused by owners allowing their pet dogs to jump in is undermining the path and making them very dangerous.

And built out of Hadrian's Wall too. See replicas of Roman altars in the undercroft of the site (originals can be seen at Birdoswald)

Complete spear shafts from Must Farm ranged in length from 2.6m to 3.4m which may explain why most were associated with light structures around the edges of the site. These long lengths may have prevented them from being easily brought and stored into the roundhouses.

The castle at #Liverpool

NEW Pig in the city? Zooarchaeological research shows how the first cities in Southwest Asia were reliant on rural settlements for their survival.

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New Forest metal detectorist Greg Livermore may have found one of 18 lost Alfred the Great aestal artefacts advertiserandtimes.co.uk/news/detectori…

‘Glasgow has more listed buildings on Buildings at Risk rgstr than any city in Scotland: c100 need urgent attention☹️
‘Built environment is at❤️of what makes our city unique but we seem incapable of rising to scale of the challenge’
Some important points here👇
#Glasgow #Heritage

🚶 Join Wirral Wildlife on Saturday, 27 April, at 10.30am for a leisurely stroll through the bluebell-filled trails of Rivacre Valley Country Park in Ellesmere Port.

Reserve a spot 👉 cwac.co/Qhx3W

Nicholas Boys Smith Victoria Hills MRTPI Office for Place will help local authorities to navigate what they need to do and defining what good likes for communities. #PlacesAtPace

What is required to achieve good design?

1. Leadership
2. Executive Leadership
3. Team
4. Funding
5. Community

Victoria Hills MRTPI

#PlacesAtPace - Chris Boardman and Mary Parsons conversing about getting people to become active by reducing car journeys and encouraging people to walk and cycle by building the right infrastructure.

Understanding what people like and value

How do you reduce opposition to new development by understanding what people like and value, and empower them to set clear quality asks upfront?

What is the role of the sector in understanding what people like and value?

Exemplar design codes

What does an effective authority wide design code look like, and how does this differ from a site-wide design code?

How can the sector prepare themselves for these new style codes?

📢 Join us for our next #TechnicalTuesday webinar
on managing the impacts of climate change in the historic environment and the work Historic England has been doing to better understand climate hazard impacts on heritage

📍💻 28 May, 1pm

Register here ➡️bit.ly/climate-hazards

1) The massive Trier Gold Hoard: 2,516 Roman aurei coins weighing 18.5 kg, unearthed in 1993 in the cellar of a Roman administrative building of ancient Augusta Treverorum. The hoard was deposited during the Antonine Plague or 'Plague of Galen' in the late 2nd century AD..

For #FindsFriday a new discovery: Greek-Illyrian helmet unearthed in Pelješac, Croatia.

👉thedubrovniktimes.com/news/dubrovnik…

A group of 16 artefacts – found on Anglesey and all dating to the Iron Age and Roman period – were recently declared Treasure. They were found by Ian Porter in 2020 while metal-detecting in a field under pasture in Llanfair-Mathafarn-Eithaf Community.
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It’s been a privilege watching these frescoes of scenes from Trojan mythology emerge from the pumice in Region 9, Pompeii Sites.
And what an unforgettable experience it’s been working with Rebecca Morelle and others to bring these discoveries to the public gaze this week. #Pompeii .

Geckoella were commissioned by Historic England to produce this research report, which looks at how heritage assets can support biodiversity conservation through a series of case studies. tinyurl.com/4zcb22ej #NaturalCapital #Wildlife #Heritage