Volunteers to help dig up items from the Iron Age
Time Team-style excavations were today starting along a stretch of the Shropshire Union Canal as part of a dig by archaeologists hoping to find evidence and artefacts from the Iron Age.
Experts were alerted to the potential for ancient finds on land at Newton, near Ellesmere, by aerial pictures which showed crop patterns on the field typical of those that have archaeological remains beneath the ground surface.
Volunteers are being encouraged to take part in the dig, which will run for two weeks until June 13.
Tom Hayek, programme manager for the Meres and Mosses Landscape Partnership Scheme, said: "It's really exciting for us. We run projects every year, and this is one of those highlights that we look forward to.
"We've known about the site for some time now and it has been one we've been waiting to get started on for a long while.
"The site itself could hold a lot of things. It's not certain what's beneath the ground but it should show us what the area was used for.
"It could be anything from an agricultural enclosure, to a hill fort, but hopefully it will tell us what human activity was there."
