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Dear all After further successful Ground Penetrating Radar measurements in March 2017 (building on those we undertook in 2007), plans are now well advanced to uncover next year the ancient clinker (overlapping planks) vessel under the pub car park at the Railway Inn, Meols, andget the vessel asse...
This is a complete shot in the dark, but my late Mum used to wonder whether the mound of earth in land at the corner of Station Road in Thurstaston which now sprouts trees could have been some sort of barrow, perhaps Viking. It was a gut feeling she always had. If you put the following co-ordinates: 53°21'...
Permalink Reply Quote More Edit PostDelete PostPrinter FriendlyBan IPReport Spam The following St. Olav's walks will take place next month (July): DAY 1: Sunday 26th July: St. Bridget's West Kirby to St. Mary & St. Helen, Neston DAY 2: Wednesday 29th July (St. Olav's Day): National Wat...
Dear Viking blogger! On Saturday May 9th 4pm we are having a mini-launch of In Search of Vikings, at the Grosvenor Museum, Grosvenor Museum, 27 Grosvenor Street, Chester, CH1 2DD UK. 01244 972197 (or International +44 1244 972197), shortly after a lecture at 2.30 to the Chester Archaeological Soci...
Dear all/ Hei alt! Just to bring your attention to 3 Viking events on the horizon: 1. Thursday 12th March, 7pm - BBC One Show Feature – “Wirral and its Viking Heritage” – provisionally Thursday MARCH 12th 2015 2. Book Launch – IN SEARCH OF VIKINGS – provisionally MAY 9th 2015, Grosvenor Museum, Ches...
I read somewhere that the Vikings when invading the Wirral came up the River Dibbin from the Mersey. Is that true do you think? It must have been much deeper and wider then than it was when I was a kid and used to paddle in it up by Bromborough woods. Did they come from Ireland? I believe Dublin was a Viking s...
Dear all We are writing to bring to your attention a publication we have just produced. It focuses on the first part of a genetic survey of northern England – the Wirral and West Lancashire project in the northwest – and explains the basis behind the DNA method to probe ancestry, the use of surname...
I was particularly thinking that given the proximity of a possible site of the battle of Brunanburh that something may have turned up . However does anyone know of any historical artifacts that were discovered during its construction.