Surrey Archaeological Society

The Annual Symposium of the Society will be held on Saturday 8th March 2025 in the East Horsley Village Hall.  Online booking is now available and confirmation will be sent by email. No tickets are issued.  It is also possible to pay on the day with cash only.

The provisional programme is listed below (talk titles tbc)

9.30          Registration

The Annual General Meeting of Surrey Archaeological Society will be held via Zoom. It will be followed by a lecture by Professor Michael Parker Pearson and is free of charge. The Zoom link will be made available in due cours.

We will be returning for a third year of test pitting this season at Albury Park to investigate the deserted medieval settlement which once stretched across the course of the former road which continued all the way to Shere. The original village of Albury was displaced in the early 19th century (to its current location to the west), and little now remains standing of the former cottages. However, with the help of geophysical survey, LiDAR and - of course - a large-scale series of test pits spread across the site, we are working to uncover and learn more about the original settlement!

Full title "The Last Line: The 1940 anti-invasion defences between Guildford & Dorking'”. A Dorking Local History Group event which SIHG are promoting. See www.dlhg.org.uk for more on Dorking Local History Group

Archaeologist Paul  (from SYAS) will give us an archaeological evaluation of the 1940 anti-invasion defences between Guildford and Dorking.