Neil Redfern

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Executive Director of Council for British Archaeology - Wandering with curiosity and all things archaeology. #OutAndAboutArchaeology #WalkingandTalkingYourWay

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Wooden bridge leading to a round house which is still being built.
Image of Hadrian’s Wall at Cruddy Cragg, rising and falling over the hills. Black and white photo of original painting by Jessie Mouthersole’s. Photo taken of image in her 1922 book Hadrian’s Wall
John Henry Philips giving a talk in a large tent - screen behind him and audience in front.
Film reel of photos taken around Clifton a small suburb north of York. Images include medieval ridge and furrow remains of ploughing, brick shelters build for RAF Clifton - all very overgrown now and the trees planted to create a garden for the North Riding of Yorkshire Mental Hospital at Clifton park. You can tell it’s a designed garden as the trees are in straight lines and very specific types of- Scots Pine, Copper Beech & Wellenintonia for example
Film reel on photos from my walk to Easby Abbey from Richmond Station. Views of the River Swale, Easby Abbey, inside the parish church at Easby with some amazing wall paintings, a memorial stone and views of Richmond Castle.
Film reel of photos taken around Sutton Bank on the North York Moors. Long distance views from the top of the escarpment to archaeological trenches exposing WW2 slit trenches and Bronze Age Barrows. Also a 1920s aircraft hangar and some Golden Guernsey goats used to manage scrub across the Iron Age Hillfort.
Film reel of photos taken around York. From the city walls to the minster dominating the skyline
Video clip of screen shots of walks recorded by my garmin phone. Included images of number of steps taken
Small slit trench half of which has been excavated by archaeologists. Next to the trench is a mound of earth that was the upcast of the trench used as a firing platform
Information panel for Easby Abbey, nr Richmond North Yorkshire
Screen shot showing number of steps - 30,114 and kilometres 22.8
Group of people looking down a street in York
CBA stand in front of a glass brake out space ready for creative workshop. Stand has magazines, posters and pencils on it.