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25th June 2023 by Mark Knight
This article focusses on the name meanings of the River Trent tributaries in the TTTV project area. (Main image: the River Dove east of Uttoxeter, photo courtesy Mark Knight 2023) Language is a mutable and changeable thing, our dialect and syntax changes over long periods of time and we are constantly inventing new words or […]
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15th April 2023 by Mark Knight
Environmental Conservation and Cultural Heritage: a happy conclusion at Bean’s Covert. During the course of 2017, a small team of volunteers from the U3A led a project to investigate the long-held local knowledge about the survival in Bean’s Covert of a section of Ricknield Street, the Roman road from Wall to Little Chester. The project […]
8th February 2023 by Mark Knight
(10 minute read). The image is of Roger the Poitevin from a stained glass window in Lancaster Cathedral Creative Commons licence CC BY-SA 4.0 Caring for and conserving our cultural heritage is more than just looking after the tangible remains of our shared past, such as buildings and monuments. It is also about […]
26th January 2023 by Mark Knight
Balancing the requirements between food production and looking after a scheduled monument is a difficult one for any landowner but when your site is of national significance and there’s nothing visible on the ground, it takes something of a leap of faith. Near to Alrewas, along the very busy A38 trunk road, lying quietly between […]
22nd November 2022 by Mark Knight
Our story begins around 5,000 years ago with the creation of the Catholme Ceremonial Complex. In the early 2000s, an archaeological team led by Professor Henry Chapman of the University of Birmingham unearthed an incredible series of finds at Catholme. A ritual landscape based around a series of ceremonial monuments focussed on the confluence of three […]
