Events and Displays - Archived Community Event

December 2006 - Upton-on-Severn Display and Flint Knapping Workshop

The Memorial Hall at Old Street, Upton-on-Severn, provided the Archaeology Service with its third venue for Unlocking the Past's travelling 'roadshow'. Karl Lee, who demonstrated the art of stone tool making at the Top Barn Farm Day in September, was on hand again to show visitors the techniques, used by prehistoric peoples, to produce functional and ceremonial flint tools, including Palaeolithic handaxes and Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowheads.

The displays featured a period-by-period account of the archaeology of quarried sites along the Severn and Avon Valleys in Worcestershire, and included a summary of recent excavations (in 2002) at Ryall Quarry. This site, investigated by Cotswold Archaeology, produced important evidence relating to an early Romano-British Farmstead, of 1st century date,  and a re-occupation, in the 6th century, by an Anglo-Saxon community.

The exhibition attracted over 250 members of the public, including a number who brought along finds of their own for identification. An Upper Palaeolithic flint blade, verified by Karl Lee, and small collections of Iron Age and Roman pottery, were amongst the items observed.

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