Last week at short notice a small team of volunteers mustered in Tyldesley to carry out a resistivity survey in search of the Roman road running from Manchester to Wigan. Our last year’s Newsletter (No.266) reported on Jim Meehan research of the fields to the north and east of Cleworth Hall Farm for the Lancashire Wildlife Trust, who are now owners of the fields and responsible for their maintenance as a nature reserve. These fields have been of particularly interest to us over the years as it is though the Roman road runs across them being shown on the early 6inch OS map.
The survey was a great success with the line of the road showing up quite clearly in the result. You can read more about the details of our trip here