Here’s the link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-34294421

You may now read this document HERE.

You can access it at any time using the Governance link in the menu bar above. The CLASP Constitution and Annual Reports may also be accessed on that page.

Postcode NN7 4DP

Harry Young’s video about the re-interment of the Anglo-Saxon remains is now on the CLASP Vimeo channel:

www.vimeo.com/channels/669732

CLASP now has it’s own Vimeo Channel. Vimeo is like YouTube, but is used mainly by serious video makers – it is much less commercial than YouTube, partly because many Vimeo users pay modest fees for the service to get extra benefits.

CLASP’s Vimeo Channel is at:

https://vimeo.com/channels/669732

Enjoy!

You may be interested in this video of the Roman buildings found in Towcester this summer by Cotswolds Archaeology.

See the film http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpeVlwdC7O0

A short film detailing the Roman wall discovery and its archaeological significance has been produced by South Northamptonshire Council (SNC) and is now available to view on the Council’s website and social media pages.

Following the exciting discovery of a Roman cellar wall under the ground at the Moat Lane site in the summer of last year, SNC has produced a short informative film to act as a record and explain the significance and story behind this impressive finding.

The wall was found alongside several other pieces across six different areas whilst excavating the site as part of the Moat Lane Regeneration Project. There were also pottery and metal artefacts discovered and even a skeletal torso.

It is planned that the film, alongside other artefacts from the Moat Lane excavation, will be exhibited in the Towcester Museum this February. This exhibition will give everyone the opportunity to view several of the pottery pieces found, look around a small poster display and watch the short film of the story of the Roman Cellar Wall.

By Jeremy Cooper (Webmaster)

This new-look website has much the same content as the old one, but it’s based on a completely different web maintenance system. Up to now the website has been run in the “traditional” manner, with me as webmaster being the only person able to update it using the files based on my computer and specialist web-authoring software. This new site has been developed using WordPress.

WORDPRESS

WordPress is a free Content Management System which has millions of users: it is “open-source” software which means that users can contribute to its improvement and development – nobody commercially owns WordPress (see wordpress.org). Once a site has been set up using WordPress, anyone who is registered as a user on the site can alter the site using just the web browser on their computer. The whole operation is managed entirely on-line!

PAGES & POSTS

This new site has two types of content: it has “static” pages like those on the old site: these are listed in the menu bar at the top of the page.

It also has posts: these are like a blog. The posts are what is shown in the “News and Features” section of the site – what you are now reading is a post.

USERS

There are several types of “users”. The following are the types relevant to this site:

• Administrator – somebody who has access to all the administration features within a single site.
• Editor – somebody who can publish and manage posts including the posts of other users.
• Author – somebody who can publish and manage their own posts.
• Contributor – somebody who can write and manage their own posts but cannot publish them.
• Subscriber – somebody who can only manage their profile.

I am currently the only Administrator. If you are already familiar with WordPress and would like to share this role, let me know.

I envisage that most users will, to begin with, be Contributors – that is writing posts for approval before publication.

Only Members of CLASP will usually be registered as users.

WRITING POSTS

Writing a post is like using a blog, and a bit like using Facebook. Posts can include images (Contributors can upload images and add them to their posts) and documents like .pdf files (Contributors can upload these and link to them in their posts). So a post might consist just of notice that a new document, for example a report on an event, is available, with a link to it.

All posts will have to be approved by an Administrator before publication – the Administrator can sort out any problems a new Contributor might encounter, and reserves the right to sub-edit all posts. If things go well, a Contributor could be promoted to Author then Editor …

WANT TO GET INVOLVED?

If you’d like to write a particular post, or become a regular poster, let me know, telling me what you have in mind, and if I think it is appropriate I’ll register you on the site – you might like to suggest a user name and password, and also how you would like your name to appear on your post.

If you would like to post something, but would rather I did it for you, send me the text and any photos.

I hope you like the new look. Don’t hesitate to get involved if you want to!

AGM and Open Meeting
10th September 2013
at Bugbrooke Community Centre, Camp Hill Close.

• 7.00pm: AGM

• 7.30pm: Open Meeting

Mark Holmes of Northampton Archaeology will speak on “Excavation of a Neolithic monument and burial pit at Pineham, Northampton”

by Jeremy Cooper

Five days of test pitting ended yesterday. Pits were dug in the Iron Age Field or IAF (better known as the villa car park) …

and The Paddock just up the hill from the Anglo-Saxon Cemetery (labelled ASC) …

Test pit 4 in the IAF proved to be the most interesting and soon became a fully-fledged  trench …

Iron age pot was found in it …

… and the enclosure ditch that Steve has been hunting at last put in an appearance …