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Excavations at the Pillar of Eliseg
« on: 18:31:09, 07/09/12 »
Excavations at the Pillar of Eliseg
Saturday 8 September will give the public an opportunity to find more about the third season of excavations at the Pillar of Eliseg, a ninth-century AD stone monument which stands on a prehistoric mound near Valle Crucis Abbey Llangollen, in north-east Wales.    

Eliseg’s Pillar and the mound on which it sits at the end of the 2010 excavation season [Credit: Bamburgh Research Project]
Archaeologists from Bangor and Chester Universities are returning to carry out a third season of excavations at the site between 26August -16 September 2012.This collaborative research project is using modern archaeological methods to investigate the mound on which the Pillar of Eliseg stands
http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/excavations-at-pillar-of-eliseg.html  

 

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