The latest season of excavation will take place at Cocks Farm, Abinger June-July 2019. This season will further explore Roman and Iron Age features in the field adjacent to the Roman villa first discovered in the 1870s. The dates are:
Saturday 15th - Wednesday 19th June
Saturday 22nd - Wednesday 26th June
Monday 1st - Wednesday 3rd July
Saturday 6th - Wednesday 10th July
Saturday 13th - Tuesday 16th July
Spend time learning about the art of ancient Egypt and have fun wrapping mummies and carving hieroglyphs.
Two sessions: 10.30 - 12.00 and 13.00 - 14.30
£8 per child with £1 sibling discount.
Spaces limited so booking is essential.
Contact:dbrooks@epsom-ewell.gov.uk
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Working with both the National Trust team at Hindhead and Liss Archaeology, this two-day course will provide training in walkover survey and metal-detecting whilst undertaking an initial component of an on-going research project at Gibbet Hill, the Devil’s Punchbowl, Hindhead to locate the site of the former RAF tower masts, one of which was sadly responsible for the crash of the US Air Force Curtis 46D in June 1945.
at Surrey History Centre 130, Goldsworth Road, Woking, Surrey, GU21 6ND
9.30 Registration
9.55 Chairman’s introductory remarks
10.00 Catherine Ferguson (University of Roehampton) : Introduction
10.20 Hilary Ely (Trustee of the Cranston Library) : Cranston Library
10.50 Coffee and tea
11.20 David Brookes (Bourne Hall Museum) : Epsom as a Spa Town
The king who was never meant to be. Thrust into the forefront following the death of his brother, King Henry VIII became one of the most iconic of England's monarchs.
Learn about daily life in Tudor times.
Two sessions are available to book for this event.
For details there is a pdf attached or contact dbrooks@epsom-ewell.gov.uk
Be prepared with gas mask training and air raid drill, learn what happened after a bomb fell. Could you deliver a message in an air raid during the blackout?
Cost: £5 per child, one adult per child free.
Details attached as a pdf or contact dbrooks@epsom-ewell.gov.uk
Relive the Battle of Hastings and discover the Norman skill of castle building using props from the Tower of London. Built as fortresses, they became administration centres and symbols of power for the Nasty Normans.
Cost: £5 per child, one adult free per child.
For further details there is a pdf attached or contact David Brooks, Bourne Hall Museum, Ewell. dbrooks@epsom-ewell.gov.uk
