Next month, it will be 10 years since site manager Seamus McDog went to eternal rest. He was a good boy and this picture of him was taken in 2015. He was in my car and happy to be going for another day on site with the students. He is still missed #archaeologydog

The Francis Crick Institute in London has a new display on ancient disease and Poulton is part of it! Watch the video and find out more about the two brother who were buried in the Chapel cemetery in the 15th Century #aDNA #poultonproject #franciscrickinstitute #plague

On Thursday we said a sad goodbye to our last digging group from Operation Nightingale. We hope to see them again next year. Just two more Saturdays and then it's Winter of post-ex #archaeology #opnightingale #poultonproject

It's the last week of excavation and we are hosting our second year of Project Nightingale. It has been soooo hot but everyone has performed admirably. We have advanced our knowledge of the Iron Age and Roman Periods in Cheshire #archaeology #projectnightingale

Arnie performed admirably on site this season. Although it was too hot on many days for him to join us, when he was here he proved his worth by keeping everyone's spirits up and occasionally helping out with recording! #poultonpproject #dog

This curving gully could represent a roundhouse, but all finds are of Roman date, including tegula. This could also some kind of animal enclosure. It seems unlikely that the roof tile is related to the feature, but more dumped in the gully from nearby. #poultonproject #roman

The find of the day came from the uppermost of the D enclosure. It's a nice rim fragment from a Hammerhead Mortaria produced in the Mancetter-Hartshill area. This kind of vessel was a Roman food mixing bowl dates from the mid 2nd-3rd centuries AD. #roman #mortaria #poultonproject

The D shaped enclosure is producing a lot of new information. Our students investigated the upper Roman fills, recovering 1st-3rd century pottery plentiful animal bone. Hopefully, we will make it onto the Iron Age fills before the season ends! #archaeology #poultonproject #roman

Our section across the D enclosure is revealing a lot of new evidence regarding Iron Age/Roman life in Poulton. It has also produced prehistoric flints, including this amazing example which was found by Sophie. #archaeology #poultonproject

Our students excavated a linear feature which produced Roman Samian Ware. What we didn't expect was an articulated animal leg from a domesticated animal. Why would someone in Roman Poulton bury a leg? #archaeology #poultonproject #roman

Our Summer fieldschool investigated prehistoric and Roman features. Multiple Iron Age features included three pits, two roundhouse gullies, a stone packed post-hole, and much more. We recovered animal bone, pottery, and evidence of industry #ironage #poulton

It's been a busy Summer! In June, we hosted a fieldschool from Connecticut (SCSU). They worked on the medieval graveyard and on their downtime visited lots of the regions historical sites. #archaeology #poulton #SCSU

It was the last day of our LJMU Masters fieldschool and we ended it with a tour of Chester. Everyone had a grand day in the sunshine and got plenty of exercise. They even learned about Medieval disease in 'Sick to Death'. #archaeology #poulton

Our students have been investigating an area to the east of the chapel. We found a spread of medieval demolition which has produced building material, floor tile fragments, glass, pottery, and even a rim fragment from a Roman hammerhead mortarium! #archaeology #roman #poulton

Our paper on RAF Poulton was presented at last weekends PMAC26 conference in Reading. It was an great event with lots of interesting papers. The crowd were a lively bunch! #archaeology #rafpoulton

I can't believe it's the end of our second week and the LJMU undergraduate fieldschool. We excavated four later medieval skeletons as part of their assessed fieldschool and everyone had an amazing time. Now I just have to mark their notebooks!

The first week of our fieldschool saw our devoted volunteers prepare the chapel for the arrival of Liverpool John Moores University students. They excavated four medieval burials as part of their training, recovering various finds, including fragments of medieval floor tile.

The latest article on the Poulton medieval graveyard has just been published. It focuses on a rare case of a hand amputation which was discovered by Satu Valoriani and Megan King. You can access a copy by clicking the link. #medieval #amputation #poulton academia.edu/144826042/Disab…

Poulton has a mention in this months Current Archaeology magazine, about the discovery of the Borrelia bacterium. Poulton gets a special mention due to the high preservation evident in our sample #borrelia #poulton

Our second group from Nottingham are making amazing discoveries in the new roundhouse gully. Katie has found a large fragment of Iron Age VCP with the finger marks of the potter. Arnie was very impressed! #archaeology #ironage #poulton