Archaeologists are calling for the public to help them get to the bottom of a mysterious mound in the north Shropshire countryside.
A field school at Soulton Hall in 2021 saw students from Cardiff Uni - and a dog - help discover a 'missing' medieval castle. Picture: Dig Ventures
Over the last few years teams of public and professional archaeological trench dwellers have been digging away at a field beside Soulton Hall. They have found some tantalising clues over the last three or four years as to what the site may have been used for. Now the site is just eight miles from the border with Wales, but things were much more fluid in the 1250s as the imaginary line between the two countries shifted this way and that.
Maiya said:"Despite being a protected scheduled ancient monument, no one knew why it was there, and we were given permission to find out. They scanned the ground with a geophysics survey and say that the evidence is pointing to the discovery of long-forgotten medieval manor.
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