To complement David Bird’s “ Reading Roman Inscriptions” workshop on 2 September, there will be a visit to the British Museum. Dirk Booms, Curator in the Department of Greece and Rome, will walk us round 2 galleries for about an hour to help us appreciate and translate the inscriptions there. He will explain the abbreviations and the different facts that can be interpreted from inscriptions in general.

Instructions and timings will be distributed closer to the time.

Charge: None. Please make a donation to the BM

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This visit offers the opportunity to see two Sussex excavations in progress. In the morning David Rudling, Academic Director of the Sussex School of Archaeology, will take us around Plumpton Roman Villa, a winged corridor house, and tell us about the three years of excavations there. In the afternoon, either Rob Wallace or David Millum, Dig Directors, will guide us around Bridge Farm - a Romano British settlement - where excavations have been in progress since 2013. There will be a pub lunch between the two visits.

A programme of summer walks around Epsom and Ewell is planned from 25th July to 29th August. The attached pdf has full details of the walks with dates and times.

Walks cost £5 per person and places are limited to 25 people per walk.

Places must be booked in advance with David Brooks at Bourne Hall Museum. Tel: 020 8394 1734 or e-mail: dbrooks@epsom-ewell.gov.uk

A Serjeant-at-Arms from the Tower of London visits Ewell to tell you how you become a Knight. Sent away from home at the age of 7 to the castle of a wealthy Lord, you will begin your training as a Page learning combat skills and horsemanship until you are 14. Between then and 21 you become a squire, capable of engaging in battle and if you fight bravely you may be made a Knight.

Our visitor will bring weapons for you to master and teach you how to defend and attack a castle.

Surrey Industrial History Group AGM
and 2017 Conservation Award Presentation
to the Rural Life Centre
for the removal and reconstruction of 
Deek’s Cycle Workshop, which came from Frimley Green.
Norman Emblow, the volunteer leader of the project, will give us a talk on the venture.
We shall then visit the Cycle Workshop.

Richmond Archaeological Society is organising a summer outing to the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum. Members/non-members welcome. For more details of itinerary and cost please contact: www.richmondarchaeology.org.uk

The Abinger Research Centre will be open to all for a Heritage Open Day event.

The librarian will be on hand to help with any research queries. Members of AARG and the Medieval Pottery Research Group will display and discuss aspects of their work. If it is a dry day then environmental processing will take place in the grounds.

Details about access are on our Library webpage and will be published in the Mole Valley Heritage Open Days booklet during the summer.

Children under 12 FREE adults £5

Discover life in World War 2 in the field of combat and on the Home Front.

The Mayans believed that the night air is filled with dreams, both good and bad. It became impossible for The Gods to protect all the children from bad dreams that creep into their minds at night. Mothers and grandmothers wanted to save their children from worry and fear, so they began to weave magical webs, later known as Dream Catchers, which would filter out all bad dreams and only allow good thoughts to enter their heads. The purpose of these Dream Catchers was to catch bad dreams in the net that would disappear at daylight.

The Legions of Rome march into Ewell - enforcing the rule of the Empire. Discover what it was like to be a Roman soldier, having to serve for 25 years before receiving your generous pension - if you survived! Learn about the weapons and tactics that made the Legions so effective and so feared.