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Saturday August 2, 2008
Start: 09:30
Start: 2 Aug 2008 - 09:30
End: 10 Aug 2008 - 16:30

A training excavation on the site of Alexander Raby's mill at the 18th century ironworking site at Cobham Park. If there is time, the dig will also examine the site of two crofts in an adjacent field.

 Places are limited, so booking is essential. Contact Richard Savage for details (richard.savage@btinternet.com)

 

Sunday August 3, 2008
(all day)
Start: 2 Aug 2008 - 09:30
End: 10 Aug 2008 - 16:30

A training excavation on the site of Alexander Raby's mill at the 18th century ironworking site at Cobham Park. If there is time, the dig will also examine the site of two crofts in an adjacent field.

 Places are limited, so booking is essential. Contact Richard Savage for details (richard.savage@btinternet.com)

 

Monday August 4, 2008
(all day)
Start: 2 Aug 2008 - 09:30
End: 10 Aug 2008 - 16:30

A training excavation on the site of Alexander Raby's mill at the 18th century ironworking site at Cobham Park. If there is time, the dig will also examine the site of two crofts in an adjacent field.

 Places are limited, so booking is essential. Contact Richard Savage for details (richard.savage@btinternet.com)

 

Tuesday August 5, 2008
(all day)
Start: 2 Aug 2008 - 09:30
End: 10 Aug 2008 - 16:30

A training excavation on the site of Alexander Raby's mill at the 18th century ironworking site at Cobham Park. If there is time, the dig will also examine the site of two crofts in an adjacent field.

 Places are limited, so booking is essential. Contact Richard Savage for details (richard.savage@btinternet.com)

 

Wednesday August 6, 2008
(all day)
Start: 2 Aug 2008 - 09:30
End: 10 Aug 2008 - 16:30

A training excavation on the site of Alexander Raby's mill at the 18th century ironworking site at Cobham Park. If there is time, the dig will also examine the site of two crofts in an adjacent field.

 Places are limited, so booking is essential. Contact Richard Savage for details (richard.savage@btinternet.com)

 

Thursday August 7, 2008
(all day)
Start: 2 Aug 2008 - 09:30
End: 10 Aug 2008 - 16:30

A training excavation on the site of Alexander Raby's mill at the 18th century ironworking site at Cobham Park. If there is time, the dig will also examine the site of two crofts in an adjacent field.

 Places are limited, so booking is essential. Contact Richard Savage for details (richard.savage@btinternet.com)

 

Friday August 8, 2008
(all day)
Start: 2 Aug 2008 - 09:30
End: 10 Aug 2008 - 16:30

A training excavation on the site of Alexander Raby's mill at the 18th century ironworking site at Cobham Park. If there is time, the dig will also examine the site of two crofts in an adjacent field.

 Places are limited, so booking is essential. Contact Richard Savage for details (richard.savage@btinternet.com)

 

Saturday August 9, 2008
(all day)
Start: 2 Aug 2008 - 09:30
End: 10 Aug 2008 - 16:30

A training excavation on the site of Alexander Raby's mill at the 18th century ironworking site at Cobham Park. If there is time, the dig will also examine the site of two crofts in an adjacent field.

 Places are limited, so booking is essential. Contact Richard Savage for details (richard.savage@btinternet.com)

 

Sunday August 10, 2008
End: 16:30
Start: 2 Aug 2008 - 09:30
End: 10 Aug 2008 - 16:30

A training excavation on the site of Alexander Raby's mill at the 18th century ironworking site at Cobham Park. If there is time, the dig will also examine the site of two crofts in an adjacent field.

 Places are limited, so booking is essential. Contact Richard Savage for details (richard.savage@btinternet.com)

 

Saturday September 20, 2008
Start: 10:30
End: 15:45

 

10.30am          Tea and Coffee available

10.50am          Welcome & Introduction

11.00am          Isabel Sullivan:  ‘An Introduction to Manorial Documents'.  Isabel is an archivist with an interest in Latin working at the History Centre

                       Matthew Piggott:  ‘Manorial Documents: their survival and how to locate them.'  Matthew is also an archivist at the Centre and will demonstrate the use of the online Manorial Document Register

Tuesday September 30, 2008
Start: 19:30
End: 21:30

An illustrated talk by Julia Elton, Past-President of the Newcomen Society

To be held in Lecture Theatre F, University of Surrey, Guildford

This lecture is open to all - £5 per person, payable at the door

 

 

Saturday October 4, 2008
Start: 10:00
End: 16:30

This Conference, the second to be held following the publication of the Surrey Archaeological Research Framework in 2006, will we hope be the second in an annual series studying aspects of the Framework document (this can be found under Research | SARF) and debating some of the issues identified.

10.00:   Registration and coffee

10.30:  Welcome to the Morning Session

            Chairman: Dr. Joe Flatman (Surrey County Council)

Tuesday October 14, 2008
Start: 19:30
End: 21:30

An illustrated talk by Martin Watts, millwright and mill historian

 To be held in Lecture Theatre F, University of Surrey, Guildford

Lecture open to all - £5 per person, payable at the door

 

Saturday October 25, 2008
Start: 10:00
End: 17:30

10.00 a.m.           Coffee. Exhibits ready for viewing

10.25 a.m.           Morning Session. Chair Alan Crocker (Chair SLHC)

10.30 a.m.           Jane Furlong (United Kingdom National Inventory of War Memorials, Imperial War Museum): How we Remember - Commemoration in the UK and the work of the United Kingdom National Inventory of War Memorials

11.30 a.m.           Carol Brown (Guildford Museum): Women in Wartime

Tuesday October 28, 2008
Start: 19:30
End: 21:30

An illustrated talk by Peter Reese, Author

To be held in Lecture Theatre F, University of Surrey, Guildford

Lecture open to all - £5 per person, payable at the door

Start: 19:30
End: 21:30
The Prehistoric Group AGM will be held in the Dorking Christian Centre (Upper Lounge) at 7.30pm. The meeting will be followed by a talk by Jon Cotton on "Towards a New Stone Age - the Neolithic in Surrey", starting at 8.15pm.
Saturday November 1, 2008
Start: 10:30
End: 12:30
 

The Historic Buildings Committee has organised a visit to the Brooking Home Study Collection of Architectural Detail at Cranleigh.

Tuesday November 11, 2008
Start: 19:30
End: 21:30

An illustrated talk by Dr Peter Stanier, Author and Industrial Archaeologist

To be held in Lecture Theatre F, University of Surrey, Guildford

Open to all - £5 per person, payable at the door

Saturday November 15, 2008
Start: 10:15
End: 16:30

By popular request, the autumn meeting of the Forum this year will be devoted to Surrey's medieval towns, beginning to carry forward the thinking in Martin O'Connell's 'Historic Towns in Surrey' in 1977 (SyAS Research Volume 5), Dennis Turner's contribution on towns in the 1984 'Archaeology of Surrey to 1540' and the contributions by Phil Andrews and John Schofield in the 2004 'Aspects' volume.

Programme

10.15am          Tea and coffee available

Tuesday November 25, 2008
Start: 19:30
End: 21:30

An illustrated talk by Ken Tythacott, Member of the British Vintage Wireless Society

To be held in Lecture Theatre F, University of Surrey, Guildford

Open to all - £5 per person, payable at the door

Saturday November 29, 2008
Start: 14:30
End: 17:00
The Annual General Meeting of the Surrey Archaeological Society will be held at 2:30pm on Saturday 29th November 2008 at Shalford Village Hall, Kings Road (A248), Shalford, Surrey GU4 3JX.

Agenda for the Annual General Meeting