Surrey Archaeological Society

Professor Mike Fulford has kindly agreed to show us around the current excavations and the site as a whole at Silchester on the morning of Saturday 24 July.

More details to follow.

For more information, please contact Charles van der Lande on charlesjvdl@aol.com

Chedworth Roman villa, occupied from circa AD 140 to the 4th.C, is one of the most important rural Roman houses in the country with over thirty rooms, a mile of walls, two bath houses, hypocausts, water shrine and latrines. It is owned by the National Trust who have agreed to provide a knowledgeable guide for a maximum number of thirty. They will charge £50 for the tour plus the usual entry fee for non-NT members. The proposed date is Saturday 22 May. The Cirencester museum is close by and there is a possibility that we may have a conducted tour there in the afternoon.

On Saturday 24 April, Brian Philp has kindly invited members on a tour of Crofton Roman Villa which is apparently the only one in Greater London, being quite substantial with twenty rooms and opus signium and tesselated floors plus remaining walls up to two feet high. It was occupied from circa AD140 to 400. This will be combined with a visit to Keston Roman tombs, some three miles away plus one to a nearby Iron Age hill fort situated on private land over which Brian has negotiated access for small groups.

More details to follow.

An illustrated talk by David Williams, Portable Antiquities Officer for Surrey

An evening visit guided by Andrew Norris
Meet at the Percy Arms, Chilworth, at 6.50pm. The landlord has kindly allowed us to park on condition we buy a drink or coffee.
Andrew will give a short introduction before we leave for the tour at 7.10-7.15pm. The tour will take approx 1 hour, after which we intend to return to the Percy Arms for a social drink and/or meal.

There is ample parking behind the church and disabled parking in front

An illustrated talk by Becky Lambert of the Surrey County Archaeological Unit

There is ample parking behind the church and disabled parking in front

An illustrated talk by Peter Youngs on a Group project follows the Group's AGM

There is ample parking behind the church and disabled parking in front

An illustrated talk by Dr Catherine Ferguson, exploring the role of the More family, as revealed through the Loseley Manuscripts, as agents in Surrey of the Tudor revolution in government, and the part they played in transforming England from a medieval Catholic country into a modern Protestant state

There is ample parking behind the church and disabled parking in front

An illustrated talk by Peter Balmer

There is ample parking behind the church and disabled parking in front
A talk by David Calow, Roman Studies Group