Bridge Farm - revealing a Romano-British 'defended' settlement

Events: 
Lecture
Groups: 
Roman Studies Group
Periods: 
Roman

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.

AGM and talk by David Rudling

Events: 
Lecture
Groups: 
Roman Studies Group
Periods: 
Roman

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.

Annual Symposium - BOOK ONLINE

Events: 
Conference
General: 
Recent fieldwork
Groups: 
Research

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

Please click on the 'Book' tab above to book for this event and pay online

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

Events: 
Talk
Groups: 
Non-Society
Periods: 
Roman

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.

Book online at: cityoflondon.gov.uk/londinium 

or call: 020 7638 8891

Charlwood Excavation 2017

A third season of excavation in Charlwood took place in March 2017. In an attempt to define the area of research interest six trenches were opened across the field from west to east. (See illustration of site layout). Five of these trenches revealed some archaeological evidence, confirming the existence of parallel ditches which can be followed for c.40m east to west on what is essentially the brow of the hill, and appear to define a southern boundary.

Items Acquired by the Library in July 2017

                              New Items Acquired by the Library
                                                July 2017
                              (Classification in Bold at the end)

Books

Molluscs in archaeology: methods, approaches and applications, edited by Michael J. Allen, Studying Scientific Archaeology 3, Oxbow Books, 2017 D4

Using archaeological archives: a case study of finds from Roman Essex, by Anna Doherty, SpoilHeap Publications, 2015 E5

Charlwood Charcoal Clamp

In 2016 a large magnetic anomaly was investigated during the Charlwood excavations and the linear feature partially revealed was tentatively interpreted as a charcoal burning clamp (Bull 457). Charcoal retrieved from this feature was subsequently sent for radiocarbon dating which has resulted in a date between AD1455-1645.

Some limited local history research into Charlwood during these dates has allowed this feature to be provisionally set in context.

Pages

Subscribe to Surrey Archaeological Society RSS