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Tower Yard, Acton Scott, Shropshire
Surveying on Tower Yard (Image)
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Angela Fricker and Martin Garland, ASHP volunteers learn how to survey using a theodolite.
Angela Fricker and Martin Garland, ASHP volunteers learn how to survey using a theodolite.
In September 2007 there was survey training for volunteers in preparation for the more formal archaeological studies to come. Volunteers learnt how to use digital theodolites and dumpy levels to map part of Tower Yard. The whole field will eventually be surveyed which will enable its subtle "humps and bumps" to be more easily analysed for evidence of buildings and other features. We hope to detect remains of a medieval tower last recorded as standing on the site in the 1790s. It is possible that the field may also contain the remnants of other medieval settlement.