Now in one of those silly acts I came to regret I got rid of pretty much all of the books and articles on the archaeological dig down by Liverpool Road.
The excavations of 1972 were covered pretty extensively in the media and led to a flurry of interest in Roman Manchester and were followed up at the end of the ‘70s with another dig and it was this later one which attracted my attention and drew me down to the site.
Once I had an extensive collection of slides and negatives which recorded my visits to the place, but pretty much most were lost a long time ago.
But not quite all because amongst a batch of old negatives dating back four decades I found these two which I took sometime around 1978 or ’79.
Trawling the net I found plenty of references to the 1972 dig but none to the later one, and yet it happened.
Together the digs discovered the extent of the small civilian settlement which stood outside the Roman fort as well as set of furnaces.
I rather like this picture taken close to the fort and looking towards Liverpool Road.
Location; the Roman dig, Manchester,
Pictures; the Roman dig, Manchester, circa 1978, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
Once I had an extensive collection of slides and negatives which recorded my visits to the place, but pretty much most were lost a long time ago.
But not quite all because amongst a batch of old negatives dating back four decades I found these two which I took sometime around 1978 or ’79.
Together the digs discovered the extent of the small civilian settlement which stood outside the Roman fort as well as set of furnaces.
I rather like this picture taken close to the fort and looking towards Liverpool Road.
Location; the Roman dig, Manchester,
Pictures; the Roman dig, Manchester, circa 1978, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
