CA returned to Birmingham, and again to Mike, in November issue , when works in the city by University of Leicester Archaeological Services on behalf of Arup and Birmingham City University revealed its prehistoric origins, including evidence of extensive burning radiocarbon dated to cal BC. Mike suggested that this burning was a deliberate act of clearance by early prehistoric communities to create open areas in the woods — a prehistoric industrial revolution of the area, so to speak.
Here, a suspected Roman fort had been examined in the early s by local amateur archaeologist Brian Stanley, before larger excavations led by Brian Hobley who went on to archaeological fame leading work across the City of London confirmed the hypothesis. So successful was the project that it featured regularly in the early years of Current Archaeology , as more fieldwork and also experimental archaeology were undertaken.
CA 24 January provided the next major update. By this point, the Herbert Museum and the City Corporation had been persuaded to make the Lunt the site of a long-term excavation to uncover the complete plan of the fort and to develop it as an open-air museum — an undertaking that, I am pleased to say, continues to this day see www. Continuing to cover the Lunt, CA 28 September then reported on the discovery of an unusual circular feature, thought to be a gyrus or Roman riding school.
Further work confirmed this theory see CA 44 , August , and CA 63 September reported on its experimental reconstruction, built in with the help of the Royal Engineers 31 Base Workshop Squadron, a pleasing connection between military endeavours on the site across the centuries. So my challenge back to Mike — or to any other archaeologists who know and love this area — is to right that historical wrong and submit to the editor a synthesis of such work over the years.
I look forward to reading it in a future edition of the magazine. About the author Joe Flatman completed a PhD in medieval archaeology at the University of Southampton in , and since then has held positions in universities, and local and most recently — central government. You can follow him on Twitter joeflatman.
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