Can anyone identify this object?

[Vindex]

Someone should go metal detect the sides of the roadway!

A careless remark, sir - NO they should not!

And if it has to be done, only under control of the county archaeologist and to a plan and a system. If it is a site of known archaeological interest it should be Scheduled anyway. (Not that it stops people!)

There is enough damage done in this country by detectorists as it is thank you very much and this site has already suffered enough from archaeological vandalism.

[authun]

Someone should go metal detect the sides of the roadway!

Careful now. My wife's uncle Fred owns that field and he's likely to set the goats on metal detectors.

Does make me wonder if they've eaten any remaining evidence though.

cheers
authun

[Viventius]

Authun, you asked about the Castleshaw Vicus - there is some information in Roman Saddleworth by Ken Booth. The publication has no date


Other than the '© Kenneth Booth 2001' on the imprint page!


OOps - blind as a bat!

The fort (Castleshaw) benefitted a lot from the MSC programme in the 1980s. Before then, it was a bunch of lumps and bumps left from previous antiquarian digs so visitors hadn't a clue what it all meant! And yes, Norman is a very nice chap