Archaeological dig in Accy?
 

Just been told that there is a "dig" going on - opposite the Peel Park pub i.e. on the grounds of the original Accy Stanley footy club

It's folk from the Central university at Preston.
Hey, this sounds like interesting stuff!

Me must get up there! :)

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They don't really need to dig in Accy there are plenty of relics on the surface:rolleyes::D

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Probably looking for all those unsold pies from the old Stanley days.

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From Atarah's description seems very near to where the snack bar was Bernard:D

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Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! TIME TEAM ARE COMING!
Tony Robinson coming next week - they are searching to find the remains of our famous Accy stanley stands etc.
TRUTHFULLY! Just been speaking to a member of the dig. The students are starting things moving then the film crew come next week.
I am no.1 in the queue!

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Check this out .....

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How uninteresting! - I have a photo of my 1st husband playing on the Peel Park ground, showing the stand in the background.
They don't need to dig - just ask:rolleyes:

What really would interest me is a dig on the moors at 13 Stones Hill
Thirteen Stones Hill (Stone Circle) | UK | The Modern Antiquarian.com
...our own little stonehenge, no less. Now that is history

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They must be realy scrapping the bottom of the barrel for program material, if that all thats left for them to do. What the el is there to look for on a not very old football ground.
Why don't they try to find evidence of occupation of Accrington by the Monks of Kirkstall, I could show them where to look.
Retlaw.

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You never know, they might find a Saxon burial mound - they usually do!

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I understand the stands were removed , as was everything else there.Only thing remaining is the old changing room .

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I must say I also cannot really undersand what is so good about actually finding any remains of any stands etc.
Just find it interesting to be able to see the Time Team crew in action.

With thanks to Owd Bert for this photo.

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There are over 1,000 known circles in the U.K. Went on a trip visiting 5 of them last year ... was good because of the area .... the Peak district.

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This one was in a tranquil wooded glade, and you could just imagine pixies and fairies hovering around it.

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Called Nine Ladies.

Rumoured that they were turned into stone for taking part in the devils' ritual dance with a local fiddler. Story is that on a full moon at midnight, the fiddler plays and the Nine Ladies come to life and dance again to the Fiddler's tune... :rolleyes:

So, they are nothing special ... but only one Accrington Stanley stand.
Is all very strange, but would be interesting to see what they are up to.

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I too have an history with that stand, not a good one really, I pulled it down;)

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Neither can I.
I think some body's having you on, it just isn't the sort of archeology the Time Team do, they are usually after old ruins, or usually Saxon burials.
Probably United Utilities laying a new main.
Retlaw.

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I hope they asked you to do it, you didnt just cart on you bein a rovers fan:eek::D

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Retlaw, have to admit, am beginning to think I have been told a load of rubbish, but, the lady i spoke to was actually on the field with a clip board. There certainly have been folk there from the Uni in Preston. This lady quite confidently said Time Team were coming next week, but .. Time Team dont seem to know owt about it. (why would the lady tell fibs?) All very odd .... watch this space

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A similar thing happened when I used to work for the Lancashire Countryside Service in Grane. We were contacted by a researcher for the Time Team Programme and they sent out a team from Preston to survey the site but they decided that it was not a subject for the programme.

The site in that case was Bentley House in the old grane village where the illegal whisky distilling took place in the 1860's

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Perhaps she meant town team and Stanley are going back :)

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Just told me Dad he is gonna have a dig around see what info he can find out :D

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My theory is that it could be working up to an April 1st prank, perhaps even instigated by the Time Team 'team'.

Fun whichever way though.

Can't see any courses at Preston that specifically cover archeology .. but might be History or summat.

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No walkinman I worked for a firm called Pilkington Brothers, Church, who got the contract to dismantle the stand, and burn it on site

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These are the people who came out to explore the Grane Site

University of Central Lancashire - Archaeology

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^^ I Agree. I can't see Time Time coming to dig such recent stuff up. Would be a bit of a waste of their time; there's lots of photographic evidence of what was there.

Plus, we do have other sites locally that would be much more worthy of exploration. Unless they know something we don't? Perhaps Peel Park was built on a neolithic burial ground? :eek: :D Lol.

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Ah, thanks Anzac ... couldn't find that.
Time will tell I guess, sure Atarah will dig until she finds the truth of it all .. :D

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[quote=Atarah;892440]Retlaw, have to admit, am beginning to think I have been told a load of rubbish, but, the lady i spoke to was actually on the field with a clip board. There certainly have been folk there from the Uni in Preston. This lady quite confidently said Time Team were coming next week, but ..
Its probably her standard answer to people asking her what she's doing, more than likely she's fed up with keep being asked what she's up to.
So winds people up to get rid of them.
She could have been working for any one, just surveying the site for rates, valutation, umpteen possibilities.
Retlaw.

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[quote=Retlaw;892583]Trouble with you Retlaw is your a real sceptic:D

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My dad hasnt managed to find anything out, he went round by there today.
He is having a drink in the Peel tonight so might find something out there as we know Sue(Landlady) would have asked the question!! :D

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Yip nothing gets past sues attention heth:D

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If I was a member of Time Team and given the opportunity to dig around Hyndburn, I would probably choose the river Hyndburn behind the Dunkenhalgh Hotel. It's not a natural watercourse; so what is it?

Have a look at google earth to see what I mean.

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I will get a update later!! :D

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Looks like it may have been a spur off the canal.

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Do you know what happened to the stand jaysay? I was unloading a tanker at Mansfield one day and the operator saw the Accrington on the cab door and told me Mansfield FC had bought the old Stanley stand. Any truth? Twas about 1974.

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Err...I think you're looking at the spur by Emerson & Renwicks. This is a couple of hundred feet below canal level, about 200yds S.W. of the Dunkenhalgh:

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Google Earth. Just to the left of Dunkalhaigh. Twisty water way, thats all i can see there apart from canal which is very close.

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Wasn't the wooden stand you see on the old photos Gremlin, that was definitely taken down and burned on sight as it was virtually all wood, there was some metal girders in it which were removed my a chap who's now my next door neighbour. Not sure but there was another stand on the burnley road side of the ground, which was a white elephant really of which many say that the purchase of was the start of the slippery slop to all their problems, I think it was bought originally bought from Aldershot, and was sold, but to whom I don't know, could well have been Mansfield Gremlin

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Well Sue at the Peel Park Pub let us down, she didnt know anything when my Dad asked!!
Still none the wiser............

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Well I'm shocked and stunned and not a little amazed:D

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Oh but she does. She told me about the dig in the first place and I was only with her yesterday when she said "filming" has taken place this very week. OK, it may just be on behalf of the Uni in Preston, but ......

And .. if you go up and look .... 3 small sites have been "ear marked".
Watch this space!

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Maybe these undergraduates need to learn 'how to dig' by practicing in places where there isn't anything valuable they might damage;)

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An interesting link for those who were following this thread.

"The results will also be published in the forthcoming volume of the international journal World Archaeology which will have an archaeology of sport theme linked to the 2012 Olympics."