{"id":1723,"date":"2019-06-23T19:16:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T19:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1723"},"modified":"2026-01-26T20:38:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T20:38:32","slug":"gm-festival-of-archaeology-2019-toddington-lane-well-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1723","title":{"rendered":"GM Festival of Archaeology 2019 (Toddington Lane Well Site)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another great festival weekend with eleven bodies on our site at Toddingtons on Saturday and a further nine on Sunday &#8211; including a total of seven members of the general public. We also had a good number of visitors stopping by over the two days inquiring about our activity on our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/?page_id=1683\">Well Site<\/a>, which is on the west side of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/?page_id=954\">Toddington Lane<\/a>\u00a0at Haigh.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Toddington-Lane-GM-Festival.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1729\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Toddington-Lane-GM-Festival.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Toddington-Lane-GM-Festival.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Toddington-Lane-GM-Festival-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Toddington-Lane-GM-Festival-768x623.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Toddington-Lane-GM-Festival-370x300.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe were looking for the old well marked on the 1849 OS but not on any later maps, and also evidence of the possible Roman road linking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/?page_id=647\">Wigan with Ribchester<\/a>. You can follow our activities on our site diary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/?page_id=1683\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another great festival weekend with eleven bodies on our site at Toddingtons on Saturday and a further nine on Sunday &#8211; including a total of seven members of the general public. We also had a good number of visitors stopping &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1723\">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-1723","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\/1723","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=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}