Welcome to our new blog. A small team from the McCord Centre for Landscape at Newcastle University, led by Caron Newman and Richard Newman are about to start a new landscape survey of part of Cumbria between Hadrian’s Wall and the Scottish border. Over the next two weeks we will do a lot of walking and exploring and will hopefully record many new archaeological sites.

Thanks to Newcastle University’s Institute of Social Renewal and the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society for providing us with financial support. We are a small team, including four Newcastle University students and one new graduate and we hope to tell new stories about the Anglo-Scottish border. The whole team will post photos, discoveries and thoughts during the course of the fieldwork.

Let’s hope for some good weather!