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)

10.35:  Seamless country: deciphering ripples of prehistoric activity in southern England

            Dr David Field (English Heritage)

11.35:  All archaeology should be research: using SARF within a commercial framework

            Rebecca Lambert (Surrey County Archaeological Unit)

12.10:  Ten Years' Diggings between Cabbages and Runner Beans: prehistoric and later rural settlement in Banstead from c.362,000 years ago to the 14th century

           Peter Harp (Chair, Archaeological Research Committee)

12.40:  Panel discussion         

13.00:  Lunch

14.00:  Afternoon Session, Introduction - Farming and farmsteads

            Chairman: David Calow (Hon. Secretary, Surrey Archaeological Society)

14.10:  Pattern and change: a perspective on Bronze Age field systems

            Judie English (Vice-President, Surrey Archaeological Society)

14.40:  The missing farmsteads: Roman period rural settlement in Surrey

           Dr David Bird (formerly Surrey County Archaeologist)

15.10:  Medieval Farmsteads 

            Peter Youngs (Medieval Studies Forum)

15.40:  Panel Discussion

16.00:  Closing Remarks: Taking forward the SARF Process

            David Graham (President, Surrey Archaeological Society)

16.15:  Tea and Disperse

Fee: £6 per person. Booking form attached below