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The Project
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Background to the Poulton Project
Mike Emery
In 1995 a landscape archaeology research project was jointly established
between Liverpool University and Chester Archaeology (Mike Emery, Keith Matthews and David Gibbins). Initially set up as an undergraduate training initiative the project has evolved into a community-based programme encompassing undergraduates, special needs and blind groups increasingly centred on West Cheshire College, Chester.
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The starting point was the investigation of a medieval chapel site in Cheshire. Documents of the period indicated that it was associated with a short-lived (c. 80 years) 'lost' 12th century Cistercian abbey at Poulton, on the Welsh border of the county. The overriding objective has been to explore the monastic landscape and its structures, in an area of Cheshire which has, until recently, witnessed minimal archaeological research.
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The additional discovery of flints at Poulton along with large quantities of Roman material, occasional Saxon ware and numerous burials has extended the historical scope of the project back at least as far as the 7th millenium BC. |
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