It is January, and thus time to start organising our annual Roman Army Conference which we organise together with MANCENT in Manchester. This year will be the 7th of these one day conferences and the general topic will be the “The Roman Army in Late Antiquity”.
We have sent out a series of invitations already and thus we hope that the programme will cover a range of topics from Scotland to the Danube, but there are still free slots – so if you want to come and introduce us to your research on the army in Late Antiquity, please get in touch.
The Roman Gask Project’s contribution will be a review of the evidence for Romans and Roman material from the 4th and 5th century in Scotland and what that tells us about Roman relationships with the area north of Hadrian’s Wall.
On the 13th and 14th September 2016 the Roman Gask Project teamed up with volunteers from Quarry Bank Mill National Trust and Wilmslow Community Archaeology to look for the 19th-century astronomical observatory that is mentioned in a number of records held at Quarry Bank and is seen on the first edition Ordnance Survey map.
Using resistance and magnetometry we were able to confirm the location of the building close to the entrance to the Upper Gardens at Quarry Bank.
We are currently preparing a more detailed report on the site, so in the meantime, we decided to include a few impressions from the survey.
Quarry Bank Mill Survey 2016 volunteersQuarry Bank Survey Team 2Quarry Bank Mill Survey Team 1Discussing the location of the features with John Tomlinson, the lead researcher of the project.
A long term research project to study the Romans north of the Antonine Wall
