Music-lovers Stan (a dog) and Mabel (a cat) live in a block of flats in the city. When their musician-neighbour goes to judge the auditions for the 'best orchestra in the world', they decide to follow her. Animals they meet along the way decide to join them.
Russell, Grunt and Snort are three pigs with a plan. They're fed up with the farm, so they escape in search of a better life. But the big wide world holds much more danger than these plucky pigs have banked on - it'll take quick thinking and a lot of luck to save their bacon!
Reports on excavations by Northamtonshire Archaeology (now MOLA) in the south- east Midlands region; Nineteen sites were investigated, dating primarily to the Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods