A project to unearth Bingham’s past has received £32,000.
Bingham Heritage Trails Association received the money from the Heritage Lottery Fund for its three-year project, The Roots And Development Of Bingham Town.
As part of the project, the group is hoping to dig about 50 one-metre square pits at various sites, including residents’ gardens.
Mr Peter Allen, the association’s chairman, said the project was designed to look for evidence of the original Anglo-Saxon core village and to show how the village grew and changed, right up to the 20th Century.
“We are delighted to have been awarded the funding,” he said.
“We have been preparing for this project for many months and we have encountered a great deal of enthusiasm for it.
“The idea seems to have caught the imagination and many people have already offered to let us dig pits in their gardens and have offered their houses for detailed surveys.
“To our knowledge there has never before been a study like this carried out in Nottinghamshire.”
The town’s three primary and infants’ schools have agreed to let the association dig trial pits in their grounds and pupils, staff and parents will be involved.
Students from Toot Hill School will also take part.
Mr Allen said: “This project follows on naturally from the previous project funded with a lottery grant, The History Of Settlement In Bingham Parish, in which we carried out an archaeological field walking survey of all the arable farmland in the parish and studied the old maps that were available for the parish.
“The built-up area of Bingham now covers about 1,000 acres, one-third of the parish, and, apart from these early maps, we have very little information about this area.”
The name Bingham is thought to be Anglo-Saxon in origin, being a contraction of Bynnaingham derived from the place (ham) of the people (ing) of Bynna.
A similar project in Kibworth, Leicestershire, was made into a television programme called The Story Of England, hosted by Michael Wood, and shown on BBC 4 last year.
Over the next few weeks, the association plans to work closely with archaeologists and a buildings historian to draw up a detailed plan of action.
Studies of buildings can start in the winter, but the first pits are not likely to be dug until summer.
Anyone who would like to volunteer to take part in the project contact Mr Allen on 01949 831575.
As part of the project, the group is hoping to dig about 50 one-metre square pits at various sites, including residents’ gardens.
Mr Peter Allen, the association’s chairman, said the project was designed to look for evidence of the original Anglo-Saxon core village and to show how the village grew and changed, right up to the 20th Century.
“We are delighted to have been awarded the funding,” he said.
“We have been preparing for this project for many months and we have encountered a great deal of enthusiasm for it.
“The idea seems to have caught the imagination and many people have already offered to let us dig pits in their gardens and have offered their houses for detailed surveys.
“To our knowledge there has never before been a study like this carried out in Nottinghamshire.”
The town’s three primary and infants’ schools have agreed to let the association dig trial pits in their grounds and pupils, staff and parents will be involved.
Students from Toot Hill School will also take part.
Mr Allen said: “This project follows on naturally from the previous project funded with a lottery grant, The History Of Settlement In Bingham Parish, in which we carried out an archaeological field walking survey of all the arable farmland in the parish and studied the old maps that were available for the parish.
“The built-up area of Bingham now covers about 1,000 acres, one-third of the parish, and, apart from these early maps, we have very little information about this area.”
The name Bingham is thought to be Anglo-Saxon in origin, being a contraction of Bynnaingham derived from the place (ham) of the people (ing) of Bynna.
A similar project in Kibworth, Leicestershire, was made into a television programme called The Story Of England, hosted by Michael Wood, and shown on BBC 4 last year.
Over the next few weeks, the association plans to work closely with archaeologists and a buildings historian to draw up a detailed plan of action.
Studies of buildings can start in the winter, but the first pits are not likely to be dug until summer.
Anyone who would like to volunteer to take part in the project contact Mr Allen on 01949 831575.
from: http://www.newarkadvertiser.co.uk/articles/news/32000-to-dig-up-evidence-of-the-past
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