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.
David Rudling will be talk ing to us on 'Border Control in Roman Britain'.
In lieu of our January talk we are pleased that Sussex Archaeology and History have invited us to its online lecture on 21st January 2026. The link is below but please book early as it is likely to be popular and places, although free, are limited. You can make a small donation to contribute to SAH costs. Link for the January 21st lecture online by Dr Giacomo Savani on Roman Rural Baths in Roman Britain: https://tixoom.app/sussexarchaeology/ra22utfp
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.
The RSG AGM will take place before the talk by Dr. Kris Lockyear.
This is your chance to come on a 3-mile escorted walk in beautiful Surrey
Shining a Light on Roman Roadside Settlements in South-East England and Beyond
Following publication of 'The Rise and Decline of Druce Farm Roman Villa (AD60-650)' BAR British Series 676, 2022 Archaeology of Roman Britain Volume 8, Lilian Ladle has kindly agreed to talk to us about this multi-period site. Exacavations were carried out 2012-2018 by East Dorset Antiquarian Society under Lilian's direction.
This long-lived site reveals evidence for prehistoric activity, and Roman occupation from mid-1st century, with the earliest proto-villa found in Dorset. Phases of construction and demolition highlight a story of villa development and decline.
Emma Corke, Director of the Cocks Farm Abinger excavations, will be telling us about the latest discoveries at Cocks Farm Abinger. Fieldwork has been taking place in the area outside the known Roman villa for more than a decade, and has revealed evidence for wider land use, both during the Roman period but also in prehistory.
The Zoom link will be sent a week in advamce to RSG members. If you are a SyAS member you can join RSG for free - just click on the membership tab and follow instructions to join RSG.
A Zoom talk will take place on the evening of 7th January, 2025. David Bird, who directed excavations at Ashtead Roman Villa and Tileworks between 2006 and 2013, will be telling us about what information has come to light in the build-up to the final publication. You can see the interim reports via the links on the Roman Studies Group page - Recent reearch and fieldwork - Ashtead Roman Villa Project 2006-2013.
