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Poulton Research Project
www.poultonproject.org/index.shtml
Time Team came to Poulton at the invitation of the Poulton Research Project, and project director Mike Emery and site supervisor Alan Wilmhurst featured in the programme. The project was established in 1995 by Liverpool University and Chester Archaeology and has evolved from landscape archaeology research and undergraduate training into a community-based programme encompassing, among others, special needs and blind groups.

The project website contains a large amount of information on the various excavations and discoveries that have taken place on the site, including a Bronze-Age 'wood henge' and a mass of Roman material, as well as the medieval remains that Time Team focused on. Various site reports, maps, photos, a finds gallery, histories and other information are assembled here. There is also a facility for online registration for students and volunteers wanting to get involved in the summer excavations.

Cistercians in Yorkshire Project
http://cistercians.shef.ac.uk
The Cistercians, or 'White Monks', who founded Poulton Abbey, played a major role in the religious and economic life of medieval England. Some of their major houses, including the world heritage site of Fountains Abbey, are in Yorkshire, and this website focuses on these centres of the Cistercian way of life. The project incorporates the newest technologies in three-dimensional modelling with rigorous conventional historical and archaeological research and expert architectural analysis, and the website contains various multimedia features, games and quizzes as well as more conventional material. It also includes a glossary and detailed gazetteer with information about every Cistercian abbey, including Poulton.

For links to other websites, either on archaeology generally or specific to the periods and subjects raised in the programme, see our extensive section on Archaeology websites. In particular, see the section on the Medieval era.

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