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Time Tarts
www.timetarts.co.uk
Website of Time Tarts, who recreated Roman cheese-making techniques for the Stilton programme. Time Tarts specialise in recreating the past for film, TV and live performance.

Richard Landy
www.wedgeofstilton.com/index.html
Website of Richard Landy, potter and keen fieldwalker, whose discovery of a Roman cheese press brought Time Team to Stilton. Richard carried out an experimental pottery-firing reconstruction for the programme using Roman techniques.

Stilton village website
www.stilton.org/
about_photographs_time_team_2006_06.html
The Stilton village website has photos and other bits and pieces about Time Team's visit and archaeological finds locally.

Stilton cheese
www.stiltoncheese.com
Originating in the 18th century, the famous blue cheese got its name from its sale to travellers in a Stilton inn, but in fact it has never been made in Stilton itself. Only six dairies are licensed to produce Stilton cheese today. These operate exclusively in the counties of Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, where they use the original recipe to make Stilton from local milk. This official Stilton cheese website includes a history of the cheese.

Portable Antiquities Scheme
www.finds.org.uk
The ceramic Roman cheese press found at Stilton came to the attention of archaeologists as a result of being reported by its finder under the Portable Antiquities Scheme. This is a voluntary recording scheme for archaeological objects found by members of the public. Every year many thousands of objects are discovered, many of them by metal-detector users, but also by people out walking, gardening or going about their daily work. Such discoveries offer an important source for understanding our past. This website provides background information on the Portable Antiquities Scheme, news and access to the PAS database of more than 60,000 finds and 18,000 images; from prehistoric flints to post-medieval buckles.

For details of other archaeology websites, organised by both period and subject, see Archaeology websites.

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