Lecture

A Lecture

Talk by Emma Corke: excavation at Cocks Farm Abinger 2016

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Emma Corke, site director of the field excavations at Cocks Farm, Abinger will be talking to us about the latest season of excavation . Magnetometry carried out by the Roman Studies Group showed a mass of features on the hill above the Roman villa site, and excavation has revealed both prehistoric and Roman activity.

Talk by Alexis Haslam: The inside story on running a commercial Roman archaeological site

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Alexis Haslam is a Senior Archaeologist with Pre-Construct Archaeology and has extensive experience of running commercial archaeological sites in London and the South-East. In 2015 he led the investigations on the animal husbandry site at NESCOT in Ewell, which revealed a landscape of Roman chalk quarrying with extensive ritual deposition. Alexis will be taking us behind the scenes of Roman-period commercial excavations in the Historic County of Surrey, including those in Borough High Street in Southwark.

Talk by David Staveley: Finding Roman roads

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David Staveley is well known to many of us in RSG. He is a computer programmer by day and in his spare time is an archaeological geophysicist studying Roman roads and roadside settlements in Sussex. David has carried out ground penetrating radar at Flexford and has used GPR to identify Stane Street beneath Church Street in Ewell (in conjunction with the Church Meadow Project). He is also the author of Snuffler, freeware geophysics software for earth resistance and magnetometry.

Cobham Remembers

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Cobham Remembers is a project run by The Cobham Conservation & Heritage Trust in conjunction with the Surrey History Centre, and is showing the digitally remastered film of original 1916 The Battle of the Somme which was shown in the former Cobham Village Hall in November 1916 .

This event will take place on 11th November 2016 at the present Cobham Village Hall at 7.45pm – tickets £5 each 

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