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A Message from Jim Smith...

 My brother Richard alerted me to the following article from Current Archaeology , issue 405, December 2023. This refers to sites numbered 16 and 17 in Aragon Close and Sackville Close, on the map of Roman Arbury which you will find here . The article refers to King's Hedges: I hardly need to repeat that we know it's North Arbury. Article link here .

The Kracken Unleashed At The Arbury Carnival 2023!

  Thanks to the small and amazingly dedicated committee who steered this year's Arbury Carnival into being. It was a wonderful success. Thanks so much to that dedicated band! We were amazed at what they achieved and very grateful to them and the many others who volunteered their help and gave us all a brilliant day at Arbury Town Park.  We were also grateful to all those who took part in the procession and made us feel that wonderful sense of community spirit Arbury Carnival day has created since its inception in 1977. Hilary Cox Condron, former Arbury electoral ward county councillor, unleashed the kracken across the old Arbury/Harborough Meadows at the Carnival, and the mythical creature was a major success as it swirled from Minerva Way to the Arbury Town Park in Campkin Road as part of the Carnival's annual procession. The Arbury landscape is steeped in history, from the Arbury iron age village or fort and the roman villa erected nearby, to the Manor and Hall Farms and the...