People in South East Cornwall will work with archaeologists to explore the ancient history of sites in the Tamar Valley thanks to funding from the National Lottery.

Communities will be able to take part in excavations, geophysical surveys, field-walking and landscape research as part of a new project, which focuses on the Tamar Valley, and Ipplepen, in South Devon, and is run by the University of Exeter.

In the Tamar Valley, volunteers will be excavating on the site of a Roman fort and early medieval settlement at Calstock, exploring the medieval mining landscape of the Bere Peninsula, and researching buried archaeology on the National Trust’s Cotehele estate.

See Friday’s Cornish Times for more details.