The Prehistoric Group has arranged a study day on animal bones to be held in the Leatherhead Institute.
This will be led by Sarah Green, MA Southampton, and is an introduction, with hands on experience, to the methods of identification of animal bones from archaeological sites and how they can help us to understand the economy and way of life of people in the past.
A free Zoom event has been arranged where three members give short presentations about their work.
Bill Powell will discuss his current research on Mesolithic and Neolithic mobility in Pembrokeshire as affected by the geology of the region
Jan Blatchford will talk about her involvement with the excavation at the Ness of Brodgar, Orkney
James Crouch will present How to Build a Roundhouse: A Volunteers Experience
An online talk by Dr Lawrence Shaw, Lead Historic Environment Advisor, Forestry England.
The Prehistoric Group has arranged a free Zoom talk by Paul Garwood of Birmingham University (Senior Lecturer in Prehistory) discussing the role of Neolithic pottery in south-east England. Online booking has been arranged to enable the Zoom link to be sent closer to the event.
The full title is: One thousand years of solitude? Social lives and transformation in the Middle and Late Neolithic of south-east England, 3500-2500 BC
SURREY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Surrey Historic Landscapes Project: field-walking on Bockett’s Farm and in Norbury Park, Fetcham and Mickleham led by the late Steve Dyer
A Zoom talk by Dr Matt Pope for the Prehistoric Group discussing the possibilities of cross channel similarities during early prehistory. Register your interest via martintrose@aol.com
A free online talk by Dr Barney Harris of University College, London about this Leverhulme funded project. The research is comparing the two periods where tangible large scale territoriality emerged in the British landscape: the Iron Age and the early middle ages.
Booking for this is available from martintrose@aol.com
A brief fact sheet on lithics has been put together by the Society's Lithics Group.
Dry Hill Camp is a large enclosure of probable Iron Age date looking across the Eden/Medway Valley to the northern part of the Low Weald and North Downs. It is multi-vallate and lies just within Surrey, close to both Kent and Mid-Sussex. An excavation in 1932 recovered few finds and the site remained enigmatic. From 2011-2013 a level 3 tape and compass survey to check the condition of the earthworks was undertaken and a report is now available in the pdf attached below.
