CONTENTS
- Introduction
- What this site is all about
- Themes
- An introduction to my various interests
- Dig Where You Stand
- History is about everyone
- My museum
- My object world
- A life in material culture
- The value of ordinary things
- Found photographs
- The archaeology of anonymous lives
- Lost and Found
- The importance of prosaic objects
- The topsoil project
- Tiny treasures from topsoil
- Industrial Archaeology
- A series of albums expressing my passion for the recent past
- Industrial archaeology miscellany 1
- A randomish introduction to some industrial archaeology that caught my eye
- Industrial archaeology miscellany 2
- More random photographs of the industrial past
- Snailbeach lead mine
- A miraculous survival in Shropshire
- Rusty Rails
- Musings on railway archaeology
- La Union
- An industrial landscape in Spain
- The Ripley branch
- Amongst what was once a busy industrial landscape, an abandoned line decays
- The High Peak Trail
- A cycle ride along a Peak District railway
- The Tissington Trail
- A cycle ride along a transformed historic railway
- Ironbridge
- Exploring an industrial landscape
- Llanberis Slate
- We visit Welsh slate mines
- Faded Paint
- "Ghost signs," painted on brick
- Waterways
- I help, a little, to restore derelict canals
- Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal 2008
- My first-ever canal camp
- Mon&Brec 2009
- The beauty of a bywash channel
- Drapers Lock 2011
- Learning about lime
- Ty Coch 2012
- I am promoted to Assistant Leader
- Ty Coch 2013
- Bashing the bullnose, and wasps. I lead my first camp
- Ty Coch 2014
- Mud
- Swansea Canal 2015
- I lead a canal camp at Trebanos Lock
- Ty Coch 2015
- Rubble and roots
- Stover Canal 2016
- I lead a canal camp at Ventiford Basin
- Ty Coch 2016
- Picnic-site paths and a little archaeology
- Ty Coch 2017
- The archaeology of Dick the Lock's cottage
- A waterway miscellany
- Towpath photographs
- Archaeology
- Beginning as a schoolboy volunteer, I spent several decades as a field archaeologist
- Hadrian's Wall
- My longest archaeological post was Assistant Director of the excavation of Hadrian's Wall in the National trust estate, Northumberland
- Chells
- I directed a rescue excavation for a year on the edge of Stevanage
- Caldicot
- In 1991 I dug on a Bronze Age waterlogged site in Wales
- The streetcar archaeology of Vancouver
- I am studying the ways streetcars influenced the growth of Vancouver
- A ceramic assemblage from Ralph's allotment
- An examination of tiny sherds of decorated pottery found while cultivating a vegetable garden in Nottingham
- Photography
- A series of albums displaying my efforts in the art of photography
- Travel
- Photographs from my explorations
- Two At Large
- My personal web site
- Ralph Mills
- My professional web pages