Archaeology News & Events

The University of Salford’s archaeology department is looking for volunteers to help them excavate a historic hall in Rochdale that has origins stretching back to 1414.

More than 60 volunteers toughed out the coldest March in over 50 years to find out what life was like at a Bolton industrial works during the 18th Century.

Archaeologists from the University of Salford are looking for volunteers to help them excavate buildings in Bolton which shed light on how workers and owners lived during the Industrial Revolution.

The results of a painstaking 15 year study into one of Tameside’s most historic sites have been published in a new book by University of Salford archaeologist Dr Michael Nevell.

The University of Salford is looking for people in the Stockport area to excavate a stately home belonging to two brothers who fought on opposite sides during the English Civil War.

The University of Salford is looking for volunteers to help them excavate historic Chadderton Hall as part of Greater Manchester’s biggest ever archaeological project.

Following a major community dig in Radcliffe, University of Salford archaeologists have catalogued a number of finds that bring the lives of the 19th Century residents to life.

The University of Salford is looking for volunteers to help them excavate the historic centre of Radcliffe as part of Greater Manchester’s biggest ever archaeological project.

Archaeologists from the University of Salford have acted as supervisors to a group of volunteers involved in the excavation of one of Tameside’s most historic sites.

A researcher at the University of Salford is looking for people to share their memories of Worsley New Hall, the Victorian mansion built for the Earls of Ellesmere and demolished after the Second World War at the end of the 1940s.

University of Salford archaeologists will be helping people in Tameside to excavate the grounds of one of their historic gems, thanks to funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Greater Manchester’s biggest ever archaeological project is ready to get underway as the first sites are revealed from a series that will eventually encompass thousands of people exploring every borough in the region, as well as Blackburn with Darwen.

It survived two world wars, a fire and mining subsidence, but met its match when it was demolished by a scrap metal merchant from Wigan. But now Worsley New Hall is going to be brought back to life by a University of Salford researcher.

The University of Salford is set to launch an exhibition of archaeological finds dating from the Stone Age with a talk on one of the most important engineering projects ever carried out in Greater Manchester – the 350-year-old Bridgewater canal.

The University of Salford is to manage a huge archaeology project that will see digs in all ten boroughs of Greater Manchester as well as Blackburn over the next four and a half years.