For enquiries about OBHAG or about joining please contact OBHAG via the Secretary, Gill Barrow (gillbarrow246@gmail.com) or Membership Secretary, Margaret Harrison (harrisonm-r@tiscali.co.uk). For other committee members' contact details are click here. If the list of contacts does not open directly click on READ MORE and then on the file name that appears at the bottom of the page.
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Programme of talks and visits
Click here and then on the file that will appear at the bottom of the screen for the most recent version of the 2023 talks and visits.
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Next Meeting
Friday 8th December 7.30pm OBHAG Christmas social evening and quiz with seasonal refreshments.
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Committee
Click here for the committee list. If it does not open directly the file name will appear at the foot of the page; click on it.
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Membership form
Click here for a membership application form. If it does not open directly there should be a link visible above to lead you to the file which you can print and then send or email the completed form to the Membership Secretary (whose details are on the form).
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Recent Newsletters
Click here for the last few newsletters. If the list of links does not open directly, look for a link to the list at the bottom of the page.
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Autumn 2022 Newsletter
For the newsletter click here.
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Margaret Harrison
Membership Secretary of Oswestry & Border History & Archaeology Group (OBHAG)
Margaret Harrison
I am a very keen amateur historian, but by no means professional. However, as well as British history, particularly Industrial Heritage, I also have an interest in the wider British influence historically on a worldwide basis. I am very interested in North America, from the colonial East Coast to the subsequent exploration across the Great Plains, through the Rockies and ...
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Rhyn Park Roman Military Site and the Birth of OBHAG
Introduction to Rhyn Park
In the exceptional summer of 1976 crop marks caused by the drought revealed previously unknown archaeology in fields overlooking the Ceiriog River near the Gledrid Roundabout.
Professor Barri Jones of the University of Manchester who had extensive knowledge of Roman activity the Northern March, recognised the potential importance of the site and decided to excavate. Operations began in 1977.
The dig attracted huge interest and the Border Counties Advertizer was v...
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Oswestry Castle Precis
Oswestry & Border History & Archaeology Group OBHAG
Oswestry Castle Research Project
Oswestry Castle Precis
In September 2015 Archaeologists spent two weeks excavating part of Oswestry castle. Not much appears to remain today but this was an important and early Norman castle. It was mentioned in the Domesday book and therefore must predate 1086. A previous small scale Archaeological excavation did suggest the possibility that much more remains under the present day turf surface than...
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