Balls and Bands
…and why ice-cream goes crunchy over time
This month’s post from our Community Geologist, Dr Ian Kille discusses ice-cream, sandstone and Mystery Rock 3 which featured in last…
Scratching the Surface
This month’s post comes from WallCAP’s Community Geologist, Dr Ian Kille.
Below Ian gives a fascinating explanation of the mystery rock picture posted in last month’s Hadrian’s Wall…
When are Ripples not Ripples?
This month’s post comes from WallCAP’s Community Geologist, Dr Ian Kille.
Below Ian reveals all about the mystery rock picture he posted in the Hadrian’s Wall Community Archaeology Project…
Happy New Year! Looking back on the first year of WallCAP!
Happy New Year all! Welcome to the first post in 2020 of the WallCAP blog. For this post (and while the weather keeps us inside) we at WallCAP…
Reading the Stones: Thirlwall
This months post comes from WallCAP’s Community Geologist, Dr Ian Kille.
Ian trained as a research geologist at Oxford and Imperial College and…
WallCAP at Thirlwall Castle
You might be forgiven to think that the WallCAP project is only interested in the Romans. In fact we’re hoping to learn more about the Hadrian’s Wall landscape after…
Corbridge Excavations
After a bit of break, the WallCAP blog is back! The WallCAP team has been extremely busy over the summer getting out along Hadrian’s’ Wall to undertake fieldwork in…
The Written Rock of Gelt
Last week saw the second of two guided walks that WallCAP has organised along Gelt gorge, Cumbria. The Rock of Gelt is the site of a Roman quarry, where…
Heddon-on-the-Wall – Heritage at Risk Survey
Last week saw the first official WallCAP Heritage at Risk fieldwork project at Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland. The survey work that we undertook last week is a continuation of the…
Hadrian’s Wall Path – National Trail
The following is the first post written for the WallCAP blog by one of our WallCAP volunteers, Ray Purvis. Ray is a volunteer for many organisations along Hadrian’s Wall…