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Displays for the Three Counties Traditional Orchard Project are now up in Evesham and Tenbury libraries. The project has been raising awareness of the heritage of orchards in Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire, as well as helping local people to look after and restore surviving orchards. Historical  research was an important part of the project and...

What’s so unusual about an old pot falling apart? Isn’t that just what old things do?   This particular pot is decorated and comes from a Bronze Age cremation cemetery in Staffordshire, so it is at least 3500 years old. The pot was found fairly whole, standing up in a small pit, filled with a...