If you've an interest in Redesdale, Northumberland, then you may want to have a browse of the 'Revitalising Redesdale' website. I fell upon it quite by accident and found myself being drawn into all sorts of interesting stuff - including walks, historical & cultural titbits, and archaeological reports. To quote the spiel:
Revitalising Redesdale was a £2.8m Landscape Partnership Scheme, funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, which aimed to celebrate, conserve and enhance Redesdale's rich cultural heritage, landscape and wildlife. It ran from Jan 2018 to Dec 2022.
So, as you can see, the 'project' has only just been wound up, but the website remains in a form that is both helpful and informative to the likes of us history/culture/nature/hiking nuts who love the North-East. Geographically, it covers the valley of the River Rede from the Scottish border in the NW to the river's confluence with the North Tyne at Redesmouth in the SE. This part of the country was the haunt of the infamous Border Reivers, of course - but there is surprisingly little about this topic on the website (and they are not even mentioned in the final 'Project Evaluation Report'). Whilst this is a little strange, it is kinda nice to see them concentrate on other, lesser known areas of the area's past.
If, like me, you like the archaeological stuff, then there's plenty to peruse. The downloadable report on the recent digs at the Roman fort of Bremenium at High Rochester is especially interesting; and the 'Redesdale Landscapes Through Time' section is worth a look if you're really into this sort of thing (the LIDAR images are amazing - more, please!).
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