The Future for the Fieldgroup The Newport History Society’s Fieldgroup has over the past twelve years, been very successful in discovering previously unknown historical sites, transforming our understanding of the local area and its history. A total of eight previously unrecorded Roman sites, including a Roman military ‘Marching Fort’ have been discovered by the group and a further four possible sites are still under investigation. Five previously unknown Medieval sites have been added to…
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In 2012 members of the Newport History Society fulfilled a long held ambition, to open a Heritage Centre in Newport. The Town Council allowed the Society to use the unoccupied front room of 3a (part of the Newport Guildhall) rent free, to display archaeological artefacts discovered by the Societies Field-group, along with photographs and documents relating to the history of the town and surrounding villages. On Saturday the 21st June 2012 the Newport Heritage Centre opened its doors for the…
Read more… - August 7th, 2014 in Newsletter
Rare hoard of old coins is to go on display A hoard of ancient coins and the remains of the pot in which they were found will go on display together for the first time this weekend.The Sheriffhales Roman Coin Hoard was unearthed by Terry Hayward in 2009. The 86 bronze coins were discovered in a field near Newport with 21 bits of broken pottery Only the pot’s base remained intact because of damage caused by ploughing. The earliest coin recovered dates from the reign of the emperor…
Read more… - May 21st, 2014 in Newsletter
While the Field Archaeology Group are usually looking out for prehistoric, Roman and mediaeval items, they also come across much recent finds: Terry Hayward managed to track down the bag seal that he found on Coppice bank, details below. Guano Seal, Anglo Continental Anglo-Continental Guano Works Ltd. AngloContinental, originally Ohlendorff & Co., had been founded in 1873, and remained a German company until the First World War, when it was reconstituted under British control. It was taken…
Read more… - January 28th, 2014 in Newsletter
( The Society Archivist has some reservations about this paragraph below.)
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The Sheriffhales Roman investigation was carried out by members of the Newport History Society on the 14th November 2013. It took place in the field where the ‘Sheriffhales Roman Coin Hoard’ was found by Mr Terry Hayward on the 2nd August 2009. The aim of the survey was to locate the site of the hoard and re-excavate it in an attempt to find further coins and pottery related to the original hoard. When the hoard was discovered, only the base of the pot was found to remain intact. The rest…
Read more… - May 22nd, 2013 in Newsletter
A new historic object has been loaned to Newport Heritage Centre. This is a wooden plaque, which was displayed in ancient times above the door of the town crier’s house. It was originally given by Mrs Mary Bennett to Bill Goldsborough (Newport Urban District Council) and has been loaned to us by his daughter, Mrs Marjorie Cooper. The plaque has caused us to review what we know about town criers. For example, what did they do? Before people were literate, and were able to read…
Read more… - May 20th, 2013 in Newsletter
TWC/ 2012/ 0297 Development on green belt land bordered by Edgmond Road (B5062) Chetwynd Road and Green Lane Here are Newport History Society’s remarks and objections to the above application. In this report, when we refer to the fields of the planning application, we shall use the local field names; that is, from the 1842 Tithe Apportionment Map (see CMGS figure 7) Newport History Society has been in existence for over 30 years and has numerous research publications to its credit. We…
Read more… - May 24th, 2012 in Newsletter
At least as early as 1979 a group of local people, who were interested in history, were looking at the topography of the town and gathering together artifacts which they had found on their Sunday walkabouts. A History group was set up by Berwick Roberts, Ray Edwards, a carpenter, Neil Edwards, his brother, Roy Sumnall, an artist, Heather Williams, an art historian with Paul Custance and Terry Gilder, who was Editor of the Newport and Market Drayton Advertiser. Ray was the first Chairman…
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