Description: One of the challenges facing modern archaeologists working in a commercial environment is sharing the findings from fieldwork projects in a format that is easily accessible. In 2010, the Greater Manchester Archaeology Unit (now the Greater Manchester Archaeological Advisory Service) addressed this issue by inaugurating a series of short booklets about the archaeology of the Manchester region. Rapidly gaining acclaim as a model of how the results of developer-funded archaeology can be made available to the general public, the volumes produced in the Greater Manchester’s Past Revealed series adhere to a uniform template that varies between 34 and 64 pages in length, heavily illustrated with historical maps, archive images and photographs of the work undertaken. A total of 28 volumes had been produced by the end of 2020, covering a range of different sites across Greater Manchester that have been subject to research in advance of redevelopment. These include excavations of Manchester’s first purpose-built steam-powered textile mill and associated workers’ housing (Volume 1), a thriving 19th-century industrial suburb of Bury (Volume 2), collieries, iron foundries, chemical works, and railway engineering works in East Manchester (Volumes 4, 9 and 11). One booklet is dedicated to the region’s textile-finishing industries, and synthesises the research, survey and excavation of several calico printing works, bleach works and dye works along the Irwell Valley (Volume 6). All of these booklets provide the historical context for the archaeological work undertaken, an explanation of the industrial processes involved, and the planning context to each project. Volume 2 examines the development and progress of the Rock Triangle in Bury, which emerged in the 19th century as a thriving industrial district of the town centre, characterised by numerous textile mills, engineering works and iron foundries, small workshops and rows of workers’ houses. These buildings had all been cleared by the end of the 20th century, but their foundations and the historic industrial townscape were uncovered during a series of excavations in 2006-07 as part of the Rock Retail and Leisure development.
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Author: Ian Miller, Richard Gregory
Publication Name: The Rock Triangle, Bury: the Archaeology of an Industrial Suburb
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford Archaeology North
Subject: Archaeology
Publication Year: 2010
Type: Textbook
Number of Pages: 46 Pages
