Surrey Archaeological Society

The Surrey Archaeological Society Annual General Meeting will take place on Zoom. Further details will be added in due course.

We will meet in the Farthing Downs car park at 10am for a guided tour of the Downs by the ranger, Thomas Oliver. Tom, who is the Conservation Ranger for City of London Corporation, will talk about the use of the Downs throughout history, including the Iron Age site and the many Saxon graves. The leisurely walk will take about 1.5 to 2 hours with the route following a flat grassy path on the top of the downs with a few gentle slopes. In summer this should not be slippery. The total length of the route is around 1-2km and we will finish at the car park where there are toilets.

Roman Southampton was important but can be enigmatic, not least because so much material went into the River Itchen in the nineteenth century.

A RSG Zoom talk will take place on Tuesday 3rd March 2026. Emma Corke, Director of the Cocks Farm Abinger excavations will update  us as to the results of the 2025 season of work. Links to the previous interim reports can be found at https://www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk/content/excavations-at-cocks-farm-roman-villa-abinger-2009-present-interim-reports

A RSG Zoom talk will take place on Tuesday 3rd February. James Bromwich, a renowned author of several Roman gude books including The Roman Remains of Southern France,  The Roman Remains of Brittany, Normandy and the Loire Valley: A Guide Book, and The Roman Remains of Northern and Eastern France: A Guidebook, will be talking to us on 'Commemorating the Dead: mausolea, towers and caskets. Contrast and curiosities ammong those able to afford burial memorials.

A RSG talk will take place by Zoom on Tuesday 6th January. Once the speaker has been confirmed the event will be updated.

We are looking forward to a talk by Peter Connelly on three Surrey Roman sites: The Roman villas at Chelsham, Titsey and Bletchingley.  Peter Connelly has been the Curator at East Surrey Museum since September 2019. 

The talk will take place by Zoom and the link will be sent to RSG members a week in advance.

The link will open at 7.15pm and the talk will start at 7.30pm.

If you would like to join the Zoom talk and you are a member of SyAS, you can join RSG for free via the membership tab.