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Work on the current investigation is expected to be complete by the 18th November 2005. If you want to form your own opinion of the site then you are urged to contact the quarry to arrange a visit before that date.
HAVING read your articles in Friday's Ripon Gazette about the additional archaeological work at Ladybridge Farm, I decided to go to Saturday's open morning full of keen expectation.
The archaeologists on site were courteous, professional and well informed. They showed me and the party I was with anywhere we wanted to look and told us about what has been found in the four large trenches that have been opened up - which doesn't add up to very much at all.
In view of the comments made in your paper over the past year about Ladybridge containing archaeology of 'national importance' I was expecting to see a rich treasure chest full of finds, but was badly disappointed.
I was also disappointed that there was nobody from TimeWatch or Friends of Thornborough present to look around the excavations like the rest of us and explain why they consider that the archaeology is so important.
Though I can't recommend it as an exciting day out, anybody who goes to Ladybridge can see with their own eyes, that what has been found is little more than bits of flint that you can find in just about any farmer's field and tiny fragments of pot that barely set the pulses racing.