SURREY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Research Committee
ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM
Saturday 26th February 2011
Peace Memorial Hall, Woodfield Lane, Ashtead, KT21 2BE
Ample public car parking; Ashtead station ten minutes walk away;
pubs and cafes locally for lunch; Margary Award displays.
Questions are taken after each speaker.
9.30 REGISTRATION
10.00 Chair: Richard Savage (Surrey Archaeological Society).
10.05 Sally Jenkinson (Surrey History Centre) - The Tithe Map Digitisation Project.
This site on the southern edge of Roman Southwark was dug in advance of redevelopment by PCA. It proved to contain important evidence for a religious complex with probably two Romano-Celtic temples and an associated building. There were many associated finds including the now famous Mars Camulos inscription and the sealed canister that proved to contain expensive ointment. Southwark was Surrey's nearest Roman centre of any consequence and this ritual
Dr Carenza Lewis, well known from television in programmes such as Time Team and more recently Michael Woods’ series on Kidworth, has agreed to give the keynote presentation at a joint meeting of the Medieval Studies Forum and the Villages Study Group on Saturday 12th March 2011.
