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Mellor Heritage Project

24 December 2009 by bigdaysout Leave a Comment

An Iron Age Hiil Settlement with a deep, inner defensive ditch, a shallower boundary ditch and several Roundhouses which was completely hidden under a flat suburban lawn. unlike may comparative sites, there had been no indication above the ground that these features had ever existed.

Follow the story of the Excavation at Mellor period by period from the Mesolithic through to the Post Medieval periods.

Winner of Sandford Award 2008.

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