Archaeology for Schools at Mellor

Thanks to Heritage Lottery Funding these sessions are completely free to schools!

An opportunity to interact with live archaeology at one of the most important sites under investigation in the North West.

Over the past 10 years, Archaeology at Mellor has uncovered exciting evidence of 10,000 years of occupation. Hidden beneath the suburban garden of the Old Vicarage in this idyllic landscape are flints left behind by our Mesolithic Ancestors who used the hilltop as a temporary camp and for hunting. Many years later the same area was an important Iron Age Hill Settlement surrounded by a deep defensive ditch. It is a place where the footprints of Prehistoric Roundhouses can be seen in the soil and a Reconstructed Roundhouse lets us see us how Mellor would have looked in Prehistoric times. In the same part of the garden pottery and jewellry have emerged from the Romano British Period, whilst other areas of the garden have revealed the deep postpits where a Medieval Aisled Hall once stood and the residents left fragments of pottery for us to unearth many hundreds of years later.

We are able to offer:

Real life archaeology with the chance to put on hard hats, pick up trowels and get stuck in
The chance to look at, sit in and let your imagination run wild in a reconstructed Iron Age Roundhouse
Fully trained Facilitators will bring the site to life with Living History role play
Story telling and practical activities
Facilities at the nearby newly refurbished Parish Centre

School Sessions

Can include either just a site visit to Mellor (near Marple Bridge) or a combined visit to Stockport Story Museum,
for either a full or half day (approx 10am-2pm or 10am-12pm/12pm-2pm)

For further details;

Email Marie Widger, the Schools and Community Education Officer for Mellor
Telephone; 0161 488 4286 or (mob) 07866 999672
Or write to her at: Bramall Hall, Bramall Park, Bramall, Stockport, Cheshire, SK7 3NX

Mellor Heritage Project