Surrey Archaeological Society

Site Director, Emma Corke  will be talking about the results of the 2017 excavations that took place on the hill adjacent to the scheduled villa site. A magnetometry survey carried out by RSG uncovered a number of features which have been explored over the last few seasons. Excavations have revealed a human presence on the hill  from prehistory, with evidence for Neolithic and Bronze Age activity, Iron Age enclosure ditches and grain storage pits,  superceded by Roman boundary ditches and agricultural activity.

This session will highlight some of the fieldwork that  has taken place over the last year. It will also be a chance for members to enjoy Christmas refreshments.

Rose Hooker, of the Prehistoric Group will give an update on fieldwork that has taken place at a Late Iron Age/ Romano-British site at  Charlwood. 

Emma Corke and David Williams  will be reporting on a Romano-British site near St. Martha's Church, Chilworth.

The directors of the Culver Archaeological Project, Rob Wallace and David Millum will be giving a presentation on Bridge Farm – revealing a Romano-British ‘defended’ settlement. The Culver Archaeological Project began in 2005  with the aim of  identifying further archaeological sites within the landscape around Barcombe Villa.  Recent seasons have seen the focus of activity at Bridge Farm, east of the River Ouse, where a large unrecorded Romano-British riverside settlement has been discovered.

The Roman Studies Annual General Meeting will be followed by a talk from David Rudling - Roman period settlement and land use in the Ouse Valley. David is well known to RSG. Until 2004 David worked for the UCL Field Archaeology Unit, being its Director from October 1991 to December 2003. In 2004 David joined the Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Sussex as a Lecturer in Archaeology.

Non-member Price: £12.00         Member Price: £12.00          Student Price: £10.00

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Venue : Peace Memorial Hall, Woodfield Lane, Ashtead, KT21 2BE (see below for location map)

All day parking available at the further end of the car park ; Ashtead station ten minutes walk away; pubs and cafes locally for lunch; Margary Award displays.

Trowels at Dawn: protecting the past in post-war London.

Peter Marsden and Max Hebditch discuss excavation work in post war London including the discovery of the Billingsgate Roman House.

Tickets: £8 (£6 concession; £5 students) plus booking fee.

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