{"id":1452,"date":"2018-06-26T09:56:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T09:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2026-01-26T20:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T20:40:19","slug":"gm-festival-of-archaeology-brimelow-farm-open-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1452","title":{"rendered":"GM Festival of Archaeology (&#038; Brimelow Farm Open Day)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weekend Festival and Open Day was a great success with a good number of\u00a0volunteers and many\u00a0visitors over the two-day event. Friday volunteer numbers were down (probably as it&#8217;s a weekday) but, on Saturday, we were oversubscribed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1454\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1040434a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1454\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1454\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1040434a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1040434a.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1040434a-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1040434a-768x519.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1040434a-444x300.jpg 444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1454\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saturday&#8217;s volunteers and crew. Left to right: Chon, Tracey, Al, Darren, Alex, Vanessa, Bill, Patrick, Andy and Mark. Front row: Lily, Indiana (Bones) the dog and Lucas.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Throughout the two days we had a constant stream of visitors, particularly from the local residence who were keen to have a look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/?page_id=420\">Roman road<\/a> we had discovered on their door step (encourage to have a look by Trevor acting as gatekeeper).\u00a0 It was particularly pleasing to see David Ratledge who hasn&#8217;t been too well recently &#8211; his Gazetteer of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.romanroads.org\/gazetteer\/lancspages.html\">Roman Roads in Lancashire<\/a> is quite comprehensive (and he&#8217;s currently working on roads in Cheshire &#8211; we all wish him well on this project).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1458\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAG0606a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1458\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1458\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAG0606a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAG0606a.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAG0606a-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAG0606a-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAG0606a-446x300.jpg 446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1458\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Friday&#8217;s contingent: Left to right Patrick, Andy, Dave North, Mark, Dave Flanagan and Tony Boylan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Much Progress was made on searching for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/?page_id=125\">Roman road between Wigan and Walton-le-Dale<\/a>\u00a0and you can see the details of our work\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/?page_id=1372\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weekend Festival and Open Day was a great success with a good number of\u00a0volunteers and many\u00a0visitors over the two-day event. Friday volunteer numbers were down (probably as it&#8217;s a weekday) but, on Saturday, we were oversubscribed. Throughout the two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1452\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roman","category-site-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}